From the Embers Quotes

“I have loved you since before I knew I loved you. I have loved you since before I was supposed to love you. And I will continue to love you ever single day for the rest of eternity.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I’m terrified that, if we keep screaming into the past, the future is going to become nothing but an echo.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“Our bond might have been forged through tragedy, but our love flourished through patience, genuine respect, and understanding.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I want you, Bree, and I’m not waiting one fucking second longer to make my move.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I don’t want to grow this thing between us in their shadows.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“being trapped in a spiral of grief didn’t afford me many opportunities to focus on the silver lining.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“And that was the exact moment I fell all-the-way, head-over-heels, unapologetically in love with Eason Maxwell.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“Being in love with Eason Maxwell was the easiest thing I’d ever done.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I have loved you since before I knew I loved you. I have loved you since before I was supposed to love you. And I will continue to love you every single day for the rest of eternity.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“This. Man.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“mastering the perception of perfect isn’t the same as finding genuine happiness.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I closed my eyes and focused on the sounds of her heaving breaths—broken and rasping just like our marriage.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“In the middle of tragedy, it’s strange the things that become engrained into your memories.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“There were so many nights when everything hurt and I wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to breathe again. But there you were. With me every step of the way.” I tapped the screen again when it started to dim. “This picture, Bree. It’s not what we have to lose. It’s what I’ve already gained.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“In the wake of tragedy, it’s easy to withdraw into yourself. After all, you can’t fathom how anyone else could adequately understand the misery you’re going through.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I understood the whole it takes a village concept, and when someone was in need, I was the first one to offer a helping hand. But being on the receiving end of that help was a slightly harder pill for me to swallow.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“That brain of yours knows more than you think it does. But none of it matters until your heart gets the memo too. Until then, all you can do is sit back and enjoy the ride.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“there is no true timeline for grief. It was always one step forward, two weeks wallowing and cussing the universe back. But, with time, the good days had begun to outweigh the bad.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“There were so many nights when everything hurt and I wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to breathe again. But there you were. With me every step of the way.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“But mastering the perception of perfect isn’t the same as finding genuine happiness.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“They didn’t understand that our love had been slow like the seasons, built on a foundation of honesty and trust.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“pirate dessert. This was just three bowls of water filled with fruit, and I gave them little plastic drink swords to use as skewers. It was a smaller, not slobber-infested version of bobbing for apples and they adored it.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“We got this, Bree. Me and you. We got this.”
And for the first time since our world had exploded, I felt like maybe he was right.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“A few weeks in, we sat down for a discussion like grown adults. She presented me with a seventy-nine-page binder of rules and instructions, and I told her I would rather live in a tent under the bridge than read the damn thing. She, in turn, told me where to find Rob’s old camping equipment and gave me explicit instructions of where I could shove it before stomping upstairs.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I’d been at rock bottom long enough to know not to waste time questioning the good or I could miss it altogether.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“How was he so incredible? And how had I not seen it all those years?”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“Bree was mine. My friend, my family, and if I had my way about it, my everything.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“We’re going to do this. We’re going to do it together and we’re going to make it okay for them. That’s what we do, and no matter how this plays out, this is what we will continue to do, okay? I’m here, Eason. I’m right here.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“Being in love with Eason Maxwell was the easiest thing I’d ever done. I’d spent so many years trying to build the perfect life with the perfect husband, the perfect kids, and the perfect company. But mastering the perception of perfect isn’t the same as finding genuine happiness.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers

“I knew down to the marrow of my bones that Bree had been born to be mine. Our bond might have been forged through tragedy, but our love flourished through patience, genuine respect, and understanding.
Life was never easy, and ours had been harder that most. However ugly it might have been at times, there was beauty to be found when looking back at all the pain and heartache and devastation, knowing we’d come out the other end better off and more in love than I had ever known possible.”
― Aly Martinez, From the Embers