I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated.

— Jessica Sorensen

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.

— Jessica Sorensen

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

— Jessica Sorensen

I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.

— Jessica Sorensen

I realize that even through the hard times I’m sure we’ll face, I’ll never be able to walk away from her. -Mica

— Jessica Sorensen

I shrug and shuffle my toe across the carpet in front of me, feeling silly. "So? It's a compliment being like you." All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds, he has me in his arms, and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him. "Don't ever change, Callie Lawrence," he whispers in my hair. "Promise me you won't.

— Jessica Sorensen

I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.

— Jessica Sorensen

It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.

— Jessica Sorensen

It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.

— Jessica Sorensen

It was an earth-shattering kiss, one that stole breaths, stopped hearts, and scared the shit out of me because it surfaced feelings I’d never felt before, ones that rendered me helpless.

— Jessica Sorensen