Quotes from The Future of Our Past

“Don't forget to remember me, alright?”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“She's already making the feast, Aaron. She's... perfect."
[...]
"Really? Jen! Get your ass in the kitchen and start making dinner. Julia is three hours behind you and she's already started!"
I laughed out loud again when I heard Jenna's response in the background. "You get your ass dressed. The turkey will be served at McFarland's Corner of 15th and Nichols. Bring your wallet, asshole.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“As long as you want me, i'm yours.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I cried myself to sleep every one of those nights you went out. I was in hell, praying for daylight when you'd be with me and not them”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“She was the most beautiful thing in my life and my mind had settled long ago that she always would be. I loved her so much I could barely wrap my mind around it. It was like the sun being the center of the universe, the planets all held captive around it, unable to break free of the pull and unable to sustain without its magnificence. She was my sun, the absolute center of my universe.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“i love you, do you hear me? I can't breathe without you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I miss you every second we're apart. It doesn't matter where i am.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“Well, it is my soul that's been stolen...and my heart.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“You're so damn perfect you shouldn't even exist. Just...look at you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“You know i'm going to marry you, right? I'm not fucking around. You're it for me.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“Hi, this is Julia. I'm sorry i'm not able to take your call right now, but please leave your deets and i'll get right back to you. Um....if this is Ryan, i'm thinking of you this very minute and i love you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“This isn't how i wanted to do this, Julia...but yes. i'll let you go to Paris but only with this on your finger.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I love you. I know i say it too much, but now that i can, i can't stop.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“If there is anything i am thankful for on any day...it's you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“He's amazing, Ellie. I thought i knew how incredible he was, but he's even more to me now. I never thought i could love him more then i already did...but i just...do.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“But i do love her more. She's amazing. Innocent, yes, but so damn passionate. It's like we're one person and we instinctively know what the other needs. The love she has for me seeps right into my skin whenever she touches me, Aaron. It's that intense. Being with her was like nothing i've ever experienced in my life.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I could be surrounded by a hundred people and i'd still be alone. As long as Julia wasn't with me...i was alone.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“Baby...i can't tell you how much i love you right now. My chest feels like it's going to explode, it hurts so much.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I should have known. You were always so good to me. I was blinded by my love for you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“The way she affected me, how much i loved her...it was like my life-force. Consuming and endless.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“You could be going to the moon and i'd still love you. I want to remember every moment of tonight; to savor every touch.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I do feel it, Ryan. I know how much you love me. I don't deserve you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“You are special. That's why i didn't make moves on you before. I didn't see you the same way i saw other women. You were so much more.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“This is my life. This is going to be my life. My life with Julia.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“If I searched a hundred years, I couldn’t find the words to tell you how you make me feel…or how much I love you. Do you know that?”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“But…I’m so glad we’re us now. I love you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“No. I’ll never be ready to leave you.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“You are my heart. The most beautiful and precious thing in my world. Don’t forget that.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

“I;ll always put up with you, my love. Forever. You can't get rid of me.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past

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“One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.”
― Robin McKinley, quote from The Outlaws of Sherwood

“Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?”
― Frederick Buechner, quote from Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

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