J.L. Berg Quotes

I'm not trying to cause another fight. I just want to offer a bit of parting wisdom, little brother. If she was the one, why are you alone at twenty-two? Surely, life wouldn't be so cruel' I squeezed my eyes shut, holding back the wave of emotions threatening to take over. Keeping my voice even and my anger checked, I replied, ' When you've lost the one person who makes life worth living, give me a call and let me know what you think about the cruelty of it all.

We all have to make tough decisions, and when faced with extraordinary circumstances, even the greatest of us can choose wrong.

Natural childbirth - I would never understand it. It was like going to the dentist and saying, "Novocain? No thanks. Just go in there Doc and rip that sucker right out!

Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees.

Clare, you have noticed I'm a guy, right? Because if not, I can pull this car over right now and make that abundantly clear.

I'm not giving up on you, Aiden Fisher," she whispered, her lips quivering with meaning. "Not now, now ever."
"I told you I couldn't give you more," I said, feeling like the worst kind of fraud. "I warned you to guard your heart."
She smiled, moisture rimming her brilliant blue eyes. "It wasn't mine to protect any longer," she said.

sometimes when a friendship goes beyond normal borders and you find a sister, rather than an ordinary friend, conversations aren't necessary.

When I was with Clare and Maddie, I felt like I was home - or at least what I thought a home should feel like.

Clare, this…what we're doing? It has to be all or nothing. And I want all of you. When you cry, I want to be the one holding you. No matter the reason. So please, let me hold you.

I wanted you to know, because you are the only woman I've ever wanted to share my bed with, or bring home. Clare, you are my home.

Just call me Sassenach.

I'll wait. For however long it takes, Clare. I'm yours.

I want a clean slate with you, Clare. You're special to me. I don't know what we're doing or where it's going but I've never felt anything like this, and I can't mess that up by doing the same shit I've always done.

Jude's sheets never smelled like anything but Jude, and they were anything but soft. Scratchy and cheap, the blue fabric had several holes from years of use. But none of that had ever bothered me because I was in his arms, safe and warm in his arms.

I might not survive Clare. She was truly my ultimate temptation. I never wanted anything more and yet fought so hard against it. But I knew I needed this. I knew she needed this. I had to start this off right. She deserved it, she deserved everything.

Jesus Christ, Millie," he whispered. "I remember everything."
…
"I remember every minute of that night. Every bloody second. And, when I look at you, I can't help but want to pull you into my arms and make you relive it all, so you can know the misery I've been living for the past two days, knowing I'll never have it again.

No matter what she'd done in our past, I would always want her. I could turn away and show restraint a thousand times, and it would never lessen the hunger I had for that woman.

I need you, Everly. I need you now, and forever. I'll always want to protect you, but life – whethere it's this one or another – it's not worth living without you.

Someday, you're going to realize your life didn't end out there on that boat, Dean … Someday, you're going to look past those wounds and scars that ripped open your body and realize you have more to give, more to live, and more to love.

And then what?" he asked.
"And then…everything."
"Everything?"
I nodded. "Everything. I want it all. With you.

I tried, Molly. God, how I tried."
"Tried what?" I asked, pinching the bridge of my nose.
"I tried to forget you. But I never could. I tried to forget this place and all it represented, but the memories never faded. You never faded.

Two broken hearts - we would destroy each other before we even had a chance to begin.

Ink and a different hairstyle doesn't change who you are. Life does.

I just want you to remember it. All of it. In vivid, technicolor clarity. And that can only be achieved if you're sober. When you and I come together for the first time, I want you to remember every touch," I ran my hand up her arm and down her back, causing her to shiver. "Every moan.

Life was no longer about hiding in the shadows. If I wanted to experience all the normalcies of it, I had to embrace the darker sides as well, and that started with a few stares and whispers.

In all my life, this girl - this woman - was always my one weakness, even after a decade apart.

Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.

Being a gentleman is highly overrated.

I'd come to this island, lost and alone, ready to give up on just about everything – my career, my future, and everything in between.
Millie, this smart, sassy woman, had breathed life back into me.

I was so afraid that I'd never be able to love anyone, and here I was, holding a child I desperately wanted to call my own and upstairs was a woman I would give my life for.
Turns out I was always capable of love, I just hadn't found it yet.

I will treat you differently, not because of your heart problem or the fact that you think you're physically fragile or weak. I'll treat you differently because you're different to me. You matter to me.