“I can't live without you. I haven't lived a day without you.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Erin called us soul mates, but I…I’ve always known it was more than that. It’s like we share the same soul, and when we’re apart, each half is looking for the other.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“My body trembled as all the regrets of my life washed through me, my heart feeling as if it were on the verge of failing. My sould cried out for her. It had never stopped its search for her in nine years, and I could still feel her calling for me.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Baby, I wish I could tell you how much I love you, how much you mean to me."
He nuzzled my cheek and continued down my neck, setting a fire across my skin, churning coals that burst into flames deep within my soul.
"Show me.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I turned to him, wishing for nothing more than to tell him who I was.
That I was supposed to be Melanie's husband, not him.
That I adored her more than any other creature that had ever lived and always would.
That I had every intention of taking her away from him.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I loved every broken piece of her and was determined to make her whole again”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Seeing her was like seeing a reflection of myself, a mirror of my pain, my loss, my regret. A mirror of what stirred within me now – this love that had refused to die. She had found me. I had always felt her heart calling to mine just as mine called to hers, this power bringing us together once again.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I still couldn't believe Melanie was here. It was all I could do to keep myself from jumping over the table to get to her, to fall to my knees, to plead for forgiveness, to beg her to take me back.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I stood to take a few minutes to clear my head when a strangled sob grounded me to the floor. My head jerked up, my eyes desperate to find what I so longed to see.
My knees went weak, and I grasped the table for support when my eyes met with the emerald that owned my soul.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Go bring me back my daughter.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“He stood above me, his body visibly trembling.
"This is forever.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“No, baby, I like the dress."
I was just going to like it much, much more in a pile on my bedroom floor.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“My eyes darted to her, dreading to see the pain I knew I would find. Please, Melanie, you have to know I only wanted this with you.
I couldn't say the words out loud, but I prayed she would understand, that she could see it in my eyes.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“That's how I spent the next day and night - dividing my time between my girls. I felt like the go between until the three of us could be together. It was as if I were carrying a piece of one to the other, making them whole, as if we were part of the same soul.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I’ll never let you go again,Melanie.Never.Nothing will come between us...nothing."
I would destroy anything,and anyone who tried to take her from me.
Being away from her was no longer an option.
She was mine.Only mine.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Gently, I caressed along the puckered, angry scar slanting in a long, jagged line across my lower abdomen to where it crossed the smooth, silvered scar running in a horizontal line just above my pelvis, wishing she could somehow find comfort in my touch. Chills shook my body as I ran my fingers over the still sensitive skin, and just like every night, the bitterness and anger I found myself feeling faded away into sadness as I lost myself in this tangible reminder of my child. I loved her, so much. Steam filled the room, and I eased myself into the water, allowing myself to drift back to Daniel. I missed him, almost more than I could bear. This was never supposed to have happened to us. We were supposed to make it…we should have made it.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“. I missed him, almost more than I could bear. This was never supposed to have happened to us. We were supposed to make it…we should have made it.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“His fingers splayed out while my heart slammed against his hand.
"How did i ever stay away from you ? I heard this calling out for me everyday." I could feel is breath across my face,his words so sad,filled with so much regret."Did you here mine?"
"yes",I breathed out as my whole body began to shake under his."My heart only beat because I could still feel your love.It was the only thing i had.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“His love was so intense, yet his soul held so much sorrow. I wondered if his hurt went so deep that he could never heal.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I missed nine years.” With trembling hands, he held me, his anguish apparent, and I could hold back no longer.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Promise me,” I grunted in desperation as I moved against her. “Promise you’ll never leave me.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“life, a spirit roused, two souls rejoined, marking it the most significant moment in my life as she became one with me.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Here, where we were home. Here, where we’d been Pulled.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“How did I ever stay away from you?” Gentle fingertips caressed my cheeks, my lips, ran over my chin and down my neck. His palm came to rest on my chest, his fingers splayed out over my heart. It thrummed in devotion against his hand. “I heard this calling out for me every day.” His breath whispered across my face, his words so sad, filled with so much regret. “Did you hear mine?”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“embraces. I was filled with awe at being able hold this precious woman again, the one who had invaded every thought of mine for more than eleven years.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“I was filled with awe at being able hold this precious woman again, the one who had invaded every thought of mine for more than eleven years.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Nothing will come between us...nothing.” I would destroy anything, anyone who tried to take her from me. Being away from her was no longer an option. She was mine, only mine.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
“Heaven. There was no other way to describe it.”
― Amy Lichtenhan, quote from Pulled
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“on the Queen’s finger was that ring of gold with emeralds set therein, which Mark had given her on her bridal day; but her hand was so wasted that the ring hardly held.”
― quote from The Romance of Tristan
“... I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held for her, a mystery felt most strongly on a bell-chimed Sunday on her solitary exploration of its hidden alleys and squares? Time had fascinated her from childhood, its apparent power to move at different speeds, the dissolution it wrought on minds and bodies, her sense that each moment, all moments past and those to come, were fused into an illusory present which with every breath became the unalterable, indestructible past. In the City of London these moments were caught and solidified in stone and brick, in churches and monuments and in bridges which spanned the grey-brown ever-flowing Thames. She would walk out in spring or summer as early as six o'clock, double-locking the front door behind her, stepping into a silence more profound and mysterious than the absence of noise. Sometimes in this solitary perambulation it seenmed that her own footsteps were muted, as if some part of her were afraid to waken the dead who had walked thse streets and had known the same silence.”
― P.D. James, quote from The Private Patient
“This isn’t something I had planned to talk about so soon,” her grandmother said as they entered the gardens. “I wanted to wait awhile longer to give you a chance to demonstrate that you were ready, that you had listened to what I told you about growing up and making mature decisions. I wanted you to season a little more. But we don’t always get what we want in this life. In fact, we don’t get what we want most of the time. We get compromises and settlements, half measures and tamped-down dreams. We get half a loaf baked, half a glass filled. That’s what we have here.”
Phryne nodded, having no idea what she was talking about. “That might be so, but we don’t have to like it.”
“We shouldn’t have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don’t. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time out because now and then we get exactly what we want.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from Bearers of the Black Staff
“It seems to me that I despised you. My joy at finding you again was not genuine.”
― C.G. Jung, quote from The Red Book: Liber Novus
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