A.L. Jackson Quotes & Sayings

Tell me you need me, Alexis. Tell me you need this as fucking bad as I do. Tell me it's okay. Tell me I'm not the only one who's losing his mind." The words grated, rugged and fuelled by need.
Emotion thickened in my throat, so heavy, so right. "I need you."
The last threads of whatever was holding Zee back snapped. — A.L. Jackson

You're my world, Samantha. Everything I do, from now until the end of time, I'm going to be doing for you. — A.L. Jackson

You see ... there's this girl who's on my mind every second of every day, and she drives me kind of crazy because I don't really understand the hold she has on me. But she has me in a way no one else ever has and more than anyone else ever will. And this girl ... she needed me, and I didn't think twice about that jump, because getting in deep with her is the only place I ever want to be. — A.L. Jackson

I love you, Lyrik West. And when I walk out that door, I promise you, it's going to hurt."
"But you are worth all the pain. — A.L. Jackson

I never wanted you to see me like I was tonight," he said, "but it was inevitable ... all of this is ... inevitable. And still I stay because I don't fucking know how to walk away from you. Last night ... " He wrenched a trembling hand through his hair. "Fuck, Aly ... last night was the closest I've come to feeling something real in so long. — A.L. Jackson

I once believed I'd take whatever piece of him he was willing to give. That was no longer good enough. I wanted it all. — A.L. Jackson

What do you want, Christian?"
What did I want? To make her smile, to wipe away her tears, to hold her. To be a father, a real father, not one in title, but on who'd earned that right. I wanted to stay.
"I want my family," I forced through the lump in my throat. — A.L. Jackson

It doesn't work like that. We don't earn love ... it's a gift we're given. — A.L. Jackson

Sometimes it gets old, living in the shadows. Somehow they're not quite so dark when you're around. — A.L. Jackson

Do you see me, Shea?"
Never had I seen anyone so clearly. "I will never look away. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

Don't ever confuse broken for weak. — A.L. Jackson

Here, where we were home. Here, where we'd been Pulled. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

Falling in love with you? That was the best gift I've ever been given. — A.L. Jackson

I don't know how to stop loving you. — A.L. Jackson

Maybe now I really understood why Elizabeth had run from me all of these months, why she would never allow herself to believe. A love as intense as the one we shared, one that had not dimmed through years of betrayal but had only grown, was terrifying. We had the power to destroy, to devastate and ruin, to lay the other to waste. But I wasn't running. — A.L. Jackson

No, baby, I like the dress.
I was just going to like it much, much more in a pile on my bedroom floor. — A.L. Jackson

You don't always need sunshine for the weather to be beautiful. — A.L. Jackson

Promise me," I grunted in desperation as I moved against her. "Promise you'll never leave me. — A.L. Jackson

Find love and bring it here, — A.L. Jackson

You're going to forget about me and find happiness. You're going to find someone who can love you exactly the way you deserve to be loved." I lowered myself so I could directly meet her face. "Do you hear me? — A.L. Jackson

A still heart quickens as beauty graces the foul. — A.L. Jackson

Never stop believing in magic. — A.L. Jackson

Fight for what you love. For what's important. Cherish it. Only a fool believes there's a good enough reason to le love go. — A.L. Jackson

Maybe my steps were slow. Maybe it was because I was relishing each one, like each represented an obstacle we'd had to climb, the trials we'd had to overcome. Maybe each one was a triumph, each a celebration.
Even though each step was measured, in reality, I was running toward him.
Running toward my forever.
Because I realized I didn't have one without Christian.
He was my all. — A.L. Jackson

How could I relax when I had to welcome Christian into my home, the one who had wounded me deeper than anyone, the one who haunted my days and held me in my dreams? — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

For so long, I'd wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I'd just had no idea that in those words there would be so much sadness, that they would be tainted by years of her sorrow, and that my own thrill in finally hearing her say them aloud would be tarnished by the immense amount of resentment over what she had done. — A.L. Jackson

Tears resurfaced. I tried to bite them back, but they bled free. And I knew they would fall endless, ceaseless, even when my eyes were dry. Never would I stop grieving her. This love was eternal. — A.L. Jackson

Jared, "I like anything that ends in you and me. — A.L. Jackson

It made me fucking crazy, and I fucking ruined it. I'm sorry I ruined it, Aly, but I warned you that I would. — A.L. Jackson

There were a rare few in this world who could stop me in my tracks, but it was only Elizabeth who could bring me to my knees. — A.L. Jackson

I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

My smile was soft as I looked down at the same broken girl who'd captured me, both of us so different yet somehow exactly the same. — A.L. Jackson

I wished upon every damned star in the sky for a second chance.
For something I could do to truly make it right when I'd done her so fucking wrong.
To be good enough for this girl who was so obviously created for me. — A.L. Jackson

This girl who was so gorgeous and broken and scared. The woman who'd become my responsibility. My future. Because I'd be damned if I remained a prisoner to my past. One I'd never walk away from again. I loved Shea Bentley and she loved me. It's where it started and where it ended. Nothing before or after or in between mattered. — A.L. Jackson

I couldn't even think of it as a beginning when Jared had forever been my always. — A.L. Jackson

What does it take to delete the past? A thousand apologies?
A million regrets?
A litany of prayers?
If I shouted them, would you hear? If I whispered them, would you believe? If I fell at your feet, would you forgive? If I asked, would you start again? — A.L. Jackson

I hear you."
"You sing my soul. — A.L. Jackson

I can't live without you, baby . . . can't sleep without you . . . can't breathe without you." ~ Jared — A.L. Jackson

Not the way I knew Christian's touch would burn me, the way it blessed me and bled me, the way he would singe me as his fingers traced my skin, the way he would sear me with his kiss. I couldn't handle anything so intense. — A.L. Jackson

Every instinct told me I needed to run, that there was something about this beautiful stranger I couldn't resist. — A.L. Jackson

Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched. — A.L. Jackson

I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become. — A.L. Jackson

This - this was our deception, where I wanted to live until the day I died. Where nothing was real but the secrets we whispered in the night. — A.L. Jackson

You take what you're given and make the very best of it. — A.L. Jackson

She's a gorgeous nightmare and he's a wicked dream ... — A.L. Jackson

That's what dreams are for. There's always a million of them out there floating around us, just out of reach, waiting for us to catch them. A million more ready to take their place when we find the others. — A.L. Jackson

Holy shit, I think our boy here has a crush. I do believe the sky is falling. — A.L. Jackson

There was no stopping it ... The way you worked yourself right into my heart. You took it over, Aly. You made me feel something real again when I believed all I could feel was hate. — A.L. Jackson

His expression was somehow both cruel and dripping with affection. Devastating. And I thought perhaps I'd lost a piece of my mind, a part of my soul, because my mouth watered and my body hummed with need that bordered on unhealthy. Vivid. Violent. Dangerous. — A.L. Jackson

Just you and me and forever. — A.L. Jackson

Loving someone will be one of the hardest things you ever do, little brother. It will twist you up and hang you out to dry. It'll fill you with more worry than you think you can stand, then turn right around and fill you with the greatest joy. It's a fucking battle, Austin. A battle because you'll spend the rest of your life fighting to keep it. But if you know one thing? Know there's no better mistake than one you make in the name of love." I — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

I fucking missed you, okay? — A.L. Jackson

Daddy.
I was struck with the magnitude of what that meant, the responsibility of being a father. Waves of devotion swept through me as I silently promised her I would always be there for her, would always love her, would be the best father I could possibly be. — A.L. Jackson

Loving someone is one of the biggest chances we ever take. It's something that blossoms slow or hit us hard, something that stirs and builds gradually, or something that shocks us with its sudden intensity. And sometimes it's something that's been a part of us our entire lives. But almost always, it's inevitable. ~ Aly — A.L. Jackson

One neither of us could bear. Life sometimes puts so much weight on our shoulders we crumble, bends us so far we break. — A.L. Jackson

Tell me you want me, too..Tell me you lie in bed at night and when you close your eyes, you see me. Because all I can see is you. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

Even as damaged as I knew he was, this gorgeous man was my perfection. — A.L. Jackson

I've always been your girl. You just didn't know it. — A.L. Jackson

Maybe the most important question was the one that burned bright, the one that nagged, the one that promised Christian could never be scraped from my consciousness. No blade was sharp enough. No cut could ever go deep enough. — A.L. Jackson

I was there. Because of a boy. A boy who reminded me I was brave. — A.L. Jackson

But I knew... I knew I was the only one who fit I that void, because it was Elizabeth that perfectly filled mine, too. — A.L. Jackson

Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I'd give this girl anything she asked me for. I'd probably beg her to take it. — A.L. Jackson

Where there's beauty, there's also pain. — A.L. Jackson

If my heart was mine to give, I'd give it to you. — A.L. Jackson

You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need. — A.L. Jackson

So Shea sang her praise, thanking God she got to be right there, because Shea's favorite places were the ones where she got to be with her grandma. — A.L. Jackson

Hearts have a way of finding their way home. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

And it killed me because I could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many years I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him ... — A.L. Jackson

You were my first crush." She sobered, her voice strained as sincere green eyes slanted up to me . "And my only love." Her throat bobbed as she swallowed, almost painfully. "I've been waiting for you my whole life. — A.L. Jackson

Jared, no. Please don't do this. Don't leave me. I love you. — A.L. Jackson

I don't remember how to breathe without you. — A.L. Jackson

Life, a spirit roused, two souls rejoined, marking it the most significant moment in my life as she became one with me. — A.L. Jackson

Go bring me back my daughter. — A.L. Jackson

I wanted to escape into her layers, to skim along the surface, and get lost in the beauty. To feel the shyness. To sink beneath, deeper into that pent-up confusion and dark. — A.L. Jackson

Never in my life had I felt as exposed as I did right then. Her fingertips softened as they traced along the outline of my sins, as she caressed the markings of every mistake I'd ever made as if this girl somehow found some kind of beauty in them. — A.L. Jackson

Make me remember what it feels like to be loved. — A.L. Jackson

The boy was painted in his pain — A.L. Jackson

I'll be whatever you need me to be. — A.L. Jackson

And each time, he slipped a little deeper into my bones. — A.L. Jackson

I ruin every fucking thing I touch, Aly, and I refuse to ruin you. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

He'd walked into my store and told me he'd give me anything. To name it and it was done. And the only thing I wanted? I wanted him to stay. — A.L. Jackson

It was always you, Jared. Always. I can't remember a day in my life when I didn't love you. — A.L. Jackson

I am still so in love with you, Samantha. Completely, crazy in love with you."
... "I love you with every part of me, Christopher. Never stopped. — A.L. Jackson

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. — A.L. Jackson

I don't get you, Jared. Did you think you could stay here and I'd just ignore you? I care about you."
"Don't say that," he whispered — A.L. Jackson

Don't want to leave behind any question of how much I love you. — A.L. Jackson

And their hearts. They tumbled and spunned.
Swelled and grow.
Overflowed.
Two empty lives that had been so hollow.
Two lives that now brimmed so full. — A.L. Jackson

And be willing to live in peace when there are wars raging all around you. — A.L. Jackson

Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway. — A.L. Jackson

I'm going to walk away and I'm going to forget about you, Aly. And you're going to do the same. — A.L. Jackson

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? — A.L. Jackson