Lyla Sage > Quotes

“Sugar, you deserve to go out on your own terms. Just because you got dusted doesn’t mean you’re done.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“if you don’t like the road you’re on, you can always pave a new one.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“Emmy was worth the wait. I’d been waiting thirty-two years for her without even knowing it, and she’d been right in front of me the whole time.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“You're the moon and I’m the tides. You pull me in without even trying, and I come to you willingly. I always will.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“When it came to Emmy, I was playing with fire, but I would happily walk into the flames for her. And I’d have a smile on my face the whole damn time.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“I couldn’t believe the universe was so big, and I got placed on this random floating rock at the same time as Clementine Ryder.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“Some love stories burn hot and fast, but you two are more low and slow,” she said. “It’s a strong and steady kind of love.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“If you like who you are, why is it so hard to believe other people do too?”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“I took a pull of the whiskey before setting the bottle on my desk, but I didn’t swallow. I leaned into Emmy, my hand on her throat still keeping her pinned to my office door, and spit the whiskey in her mouth.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“I followed my dreams, and they led me back to you.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“Emmy Ryder might have been in like with me, but it was then that I knew I was falling in love with her.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“I see you, Ada. I always see you, even when you won’t look at me.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“Sometimes, it was just easier for me to live under the piles rather than face what might be in them. It wasn’t logical, but my brain didn’t really work normally.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“At his core, Weston Ryder was gentle, and I thought that was the best thing that a man could be.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“I don’t have much to offer,” he went on softly. “Just a quiet life with a grumpy man from a small town, but I can promise to love you every day.”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“And Emmy wasn’t just pretty. She was extraordinary.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“I used to be fearless. Until I met Ada Hart. Now I had something that I was terrified to lose.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“I know being diagnosed with ADHD looks different for all of us, but if you’ve ever had a hard time explaining why you leave literally everything until the last minute, why you feel out of control, why your tongue feels like it doesn’t belong in in your mouth when the music is too loud, or any of the countless other things we feel that are apart of ADHD, you might see yourself in Done and Dusted.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“God, he was so gentle — so comforting. He talked to me the way people talk to plants when they want them to grow.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“It was a beautiful thing to watch your best friend be loved in the way you know she deserves.”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“She fit in my arms like she was made for them. I’d like to think she was.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“You say you're not nice, or warm, or bright, or any of these other stupid fucking words that people use to describe the sun, but I never asked you to be the
sun. I would rather have the moon anyway.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“You know, if you don’t like the road you’re on, you can always pave a new one.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“And your family is my family, Emmy, so even if you weren’t in my bar, you would be my business. You’ve always been my business, and you’ll always be my business.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“Wes?” I called. “Yeah?” “You didn’t ask me why I came home.” “I don’t care why you’re here, only that you are.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“As far as friends went, I didn’t really have any–not because I didn’t want them, but because making friends as an adult is hard. Honestly, I enjoyed solitute, but there’s a difference between that and being lonely.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“When you're treated a certain way for so long, you start to believe that's how you should be treated. It left me feeling like there wasn't anything about me that someone could love.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“It was hard to breathe, but not because I was panicking. It was because this man had quite literally taken my breath away.”
― Lyla Sage, Done and Dusted

“Ada wasn’t just “on my mind,” she was in it — in every nook and cranny.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“The little things are the big things, Ada. They're the
things all the big things are made of I might not know you all the way, but I want to, and I'm just asking you to give me a chance to do that.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled