Top 35 B.N. Toler Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Home is a place where love resides and rests easy. Love should always be easy.”

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2. “Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom before we can make our way back up.”

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3. “Sometimes that’s all we really have to get us through the hard times. Something as empty and useless as words can be what keeps us treading water in the raging and unforgiving river that is life. And that is exactly what they’ve been for me.”

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4. “I love you, too, baby girl,” he whispers. “Here, there, forever.”

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5. “The brothers are so different, polar opposites in fact, that I find myself drawn to each one for different reasons. One is so strong and responsible; so much so, not even death can keep him from taking care of those he loves. The other, broken and lost, wishing time could rewind on one hand, but using any method necessary to forget time on the other.”

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6. “Moments come and go; quick flickers in time. Yet those moments can have the profoundest impact on our lives. Either we seize them, and wield them to our needs, or we let them go. It’s the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest – because regret is something that never leaves us.”

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7. “I want you. All of you. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I love you.”

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8. “I envy the river. It moves, flows, and keeps going. Unlike me.”

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9. “Not a cruel cold, more like wounded, like a warning to stay away; a broken cold.”

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10. “There is no woman in this world like your mother. Believe me, I’ve looked.”

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11. “If shame had a sound, it would sound like an agonizing scream, but unfortunately it’s a silent emotion. One I’ve been hiding from for years.”

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12. “Somehow we’ve become tethered to one another, even though we both know our time together is limited.”

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13. “He saw a man that had everything – that had it all. His all. Lucky man.”

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14. “It isn’t intimate or sexual; it’s the comfort in finding someone who finally understands.”

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15. “When her gaze meets mine, I see the sadness and the guilt in her eyes. I know she feels bad about wanting us both, but she feels worse because she knows I can do nothing about it, no matter what.”

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16. “You are my most epic adventure, princess.”

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17. “Broken doesn’t mean we’re valued any less, it just means we’ve loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we’ve lost part of ourselves.”

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18. “My little girl made me breakfast in bed. If she’d bought me a burnt turd and a cup of toilet water, I’d choke it down.”

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19. “Johnny Cash, God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” he says. I can’t help it; I look up at Ike and smirk. “What? You’re not a Cash fan?” He gives me a sad look. “I am,” I whisper. “What?” he groans. “Beautiful and fantastic taste in music! Where were you when I was alive?”

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20. “It’s the moments we let go that, I believe, remain with us strongest – because regret is something that never leaves us.”

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21. “Marriage feels like a living and breathing thing, and when you lose it, it’s like losing a family member.”

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22. “Grief. What a horrid thing it is, yet I hold tightly to it. The agony I feel is how I remember he was here, that he existed.”

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23. “She’s a very drastic woman. Not even I could have predicted she’d do something like that.”

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24. “This is only a dream; the two of us imagining what could have been in another time or another life.”

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25. “How heavy the weight must feel to know you are deteriorating, yet feel like you need to remain tough for those you love.”

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26. “Laughter is like the old grandmother in every family,” I note, “it brings everyone together. Even people that hate each other.”

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27. “And there it is. The suck. It’s been one day and he’s already sucking me back in.”

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28. “I think that kiss was the first time I ever thought about forever.”

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29. “How do I save him, and let you go at the same time? How do I do that?”

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30. “Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear.”

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31. “Listen, I don’t know you or what you’ve been through, but I know I’d give any-thing to still be alive right now, no matter what.”

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32. “I pray I’ll get to remember this on the other side, that whatever higher being there is will allow me to hold tightly to this memory.”

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33. “I didn’t know what life was until death came to my door.”

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34. “Forgiveness would be hard, but it would be worth it.”

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35. “I need to let him go. But hearts don’t work like light switches; they don’t just flick on and off. They swell rapidly with love and bleed out slowly with pain.”

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36. “Bending down, I press a firm kiss to her forehead. “You are my most epic adventure, princess.”

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37. “First off, guys don’t say BFF.”

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38. “Did my insides just liquefy and drip to the floor? Why, oh why, does he have to say things like that to me? Why does this sexy-as-hell man have to make me feel so... special? He likes the way it feels when I look at him?”

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