Top 40 Jane Harvey-Berrick Quotes (2024 Update)

2. “I think,” I said, slowly, “that meeting you has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

3. “You have to walk a mile in another man’s shoes before you judge him.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

4. “Kes wasn’t safe. He wasn’t a sensible choice. He made my heart race, and swoop, and die a little. When I was near him, I burned. When he was far away, my blood moved sluggishly, reluctantly, cooling without his heat. Maybe we’d burn together. But maybe, just maybe, we’d fly.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

5. “You are,” I said, quietly. “You are gorgeous. Any guy would be crazy not to think so.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

6. “Giving up only accomplishes one thing: failure.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

7. “Perhaps life is what happens when you least expect it.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

8. “Don’t give up on me, Torrey,” I said, not too proud to beg. “I’ve only got six-and-a-half weeks left. “God, don’t leave me, sweetheart. Not now.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

9. “I didn’t leave because I didn’t love you enough, Kes; I left because I loved you too much, and it was breaking my heart that you couldn’t trust me. I’d done everything I could to fit into your world, and it still wasn’t enough. There were things about your life that you didn’t want to share with me – you must see that there’s no future in a relationship like that?”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

10. “I was old enough to know that magic didn’t exist, and young enough to hope that I was wrong. I was sure that if magic belonged anywhere in the world, it was living and breathing right across the road in Mr. Peterson’s field.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

11. “You make people happy. When you’re in front of a crowd, nobody can think about their problems or their worries or anything else. You have a gift, Kes, an amazing wonderful gift. It’s special, just like you.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

12. “I preferred my Papa’s version: ‘Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men’. A.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

13. “It’s hard to explain what those two weeks every summer meant to me. I lived for them, I breathed for them, and the rest of my life seemed to be spent waiting.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

14. “If I wanted to listen to an arsehole, I’d fart a tune,” she said, her voice hard and clear.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

15. “Do you know what I dream about? My dream would be to die looking at the lights on the Ferris wheel. When I get old, when my body has given up, that’s what I want to see. And in that dream, you’re standing next to me.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

16. “What did I know of the kind of love that made it hard to breathe, where your body ached day and night for that connection with another, physically, mentally, spiritually? It was utterly new and terrifying and exhausting and wonderful. I was dazzled by the light that spilled from him into the shadow of my previous existence. He eclipsed everything, erased everything that had gone before. I was reborn – not just to him, but to myself. And I was ready for the adventure.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

17. “I just don’t want you thinkin’ about any other guy when you’re with me. I want you with me – all of you. It’s not just fuckin’. Not for me, not with you. I know you think it’s because I haven’t slept with a woman in a long time, but it’s not. It’s because it’s you, and I meant it when I said I wanted to make love to you.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

18. “Yeah? Well, life happens while you’re making other plans.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

19. “We get to see America. Ollo says that we’re adventurers, not tourists.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

20. “Maybe magic happens when you let it.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

21. “God, Aimee, we’ll make it work,” he growled out against my skin. “I know we can make it work. Don’t ever leave me again. Please, baby, please.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

22. “Ten years ago he’d said these words to me, told me that he loved me. I’d believed they were the words of a lonely, infatuated boy: real, but not lasting. Now the same man was standing before me, saying that he’d loved me all this time – and that it was real. He didn’t care that I was older than him; he didn’t care that I was ridden with insecurities; and he’d forgiven me for doubting him.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

23. “He could breathe fire, he could eat flames, but the word ‘love’ burned on his lips.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

24. “Being close to death, I knew that I wanted to live. I wanted to experience it all. With Jack.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

25. “His element was the air around him. I had roots and he had wings – could they ever work together?”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

26. “You’ve always been my girl, Aimee. The only one who ever mattered. You know that, right?”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

27. “When we finished our catch up, I lay back and tried to sleep. But I kept thinking about what Kes had said: that Heaven for him was me and the carnival.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

28. “It hurt so badly to be away from you. I suppose if my parents’ marriage taught me anything, it was not to be the person who was left behind. So I ran, afraid that you would run first, sooner or later.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

29. “I’d do whatever it took to hold onto her. Even if that meant letting her go.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

30. “I’ve dreamed of this so many times, I can’t believe it’s real – that you’re real. You were always there, just out of reach, and I’d wake up and find my bed empty. But now you’re here.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

31. “The light was a sheen of white across my eyelids and I shifted in the bed, feeling a trickle of sweat down my back. I was too warm and the rattle of the generator outside was an annoyance. And then I felt Kes’s breath on my neck as he spoke. “I’ve dreamed of this so many times, I can’t believe it’s real – that you’re real. You were always there, just out of reach, and I’d wake up and find my bed empty. But now you’re here.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

32. “I’ve waited too long to find you. I’m not letting you go now.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

33. “Wow, wounded by sarcasm at close range. The Brits sure fight dirty. Next it’ll be harsh language.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

34. “I felt as if I’d met my soulmate, but he was always being taken away from me.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

35. “I care about you !” he roared. “Christ!” He took a deep breath. “I’m trying here, Aimee. Maybe I don’t say it pretty enough for you. But this is me, trying.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

36. “He reached out and brushed his thumb along my bottom lip. “You’re my girl, Aimee. No one else.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

37. “When he performs, he is all of us, the person we wish we could be. He is the hero in all of us.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

38. “Come on, Aimee! If it’s not Kes hauling you off to have his wicked way with you, then you’re giving him these scorching looks across the bonfire. Hell, it makes me want to go take a cold shower, which is interesting seeing as you’re a girl and I’m gay.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

39. “You’re not alone now,” she said.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

40. “We don’t make any sense, nothing about us fits, but we’re real.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

41. “Being a parent means you’re an expert in guilt.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick