Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2) QUOTES

2 " She was the one. If I’d ever had a doubt, I didn’t now. She was the one I’d be thinking about, longing for, until I took my last breath. If I lost her tomorrow, I’d pine for her like a lovesick fool. This was the kind of love that only hit you once in your life. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

4 " Even love couldn’t cushion a fall like ours. My love for Tristan was so big that I felt consumed by it, and even so, it was not enough to overpower our combined demons.
I struggled. I yelled and screamed. I scratched and kicked.
I fought like hell, but even the most determined fighters have to stop before they break.
No one could say I didn’t fight for him, "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

6 " I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

8 " He lay on top of me, buried deep, and fell asleep.
He slept all night like that, and I did not move him, did not want to. I gasped breath in and out and closed my eyes and thought that I would never forget this feeling, of him on me and in me, of him consuming my soul and letting me go.
He was too callous, too far gone to realize that I'd never be free of him, and all he'd really done was set me adrift.
I never left that bed.
That feeling of helpless abandonment and unendurable longing stayed inside of me, for hours, for minutes, for weeks.
For years.
I went through my life, through tragedy and pain, through hardship and life, and my heart, my very sould, stayed in that bed.
I felt broken after that last encounter.
Pieces of me had been shattered on that bed, important, essential pieces, and they would not, could not, ever find their way back together.
But I kept going. Life is cruel like that. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

10 " My dear, this is what's called family. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

12 " There was an anchor, tied around both of his ankles, and it was taking him deep, into black fathomless depths, drowning him slowly but surely.
I didn’t tell him that he was dragging me down with him. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

14 " I was still hurting, my heart still aching with all of the loss, but I began to attempt to live again.
To wake, to move, to try taking small steps in the right direction. I was alone in that path. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

16 " I love you,” I spoke softly into his ear.
He gripped me harder. “I can’t ever lose you, Danika. I’m not sure I’d survive it.”
“You’ve got me. And I’m not going anywhere. Not ever.”
I meant the words when I said them, but life had other plans for us.
I was, by nature, a fighter, and no one could say I didn’t fight for us.
I’d have given my life for that fight.
In fact, I nearly did. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

18 " There’s not an ounce of dirt on you, sweetheart. You have the purest heart I’ve ever known. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)

20 " It had been torture. But every coffin needed its last nail, and that meeting was ours. "

― R.K. Lilley , Rock Bottom (Tristan & Danika, #2)