Kelly Siskind > Quotes

“I guess you have to decide which you'll regret more, missing the world you know or never exploring the one that scares you.”
― Kelly Siskind, The Beat Match

“He waited for me to stand and join him, then he threaded our fingers together. My best friend, the boy I'd loved my entire life, was holding my hand.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“He was so textbook the textbooks were jealous of him.”
― Kelly Siskind, The Beat Match

“Nine years of nurtured anger tangled with this thing. This gripping attraction and wistfulness—a deep missing of this woman from my life.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“Tomorrow, Canada, we chase the crazy.”
― Kelly Siskind, Chasing Crazy

“We were perfect, a little messy and a lot wild. There were no rules for August and me.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“I missed Delilah always, even when I was with her. It was the strangest feeling I couldn’t put into words. I imagined it was how astronauts felt, surrounded by everything—limitless infinity and beauty—unable to touch the universe.”
― Kelly Siskind, 50 Ways to Win Back Your Lover

“Family is like that," he said gently. "They're the most important people in my life, but they also contribute a lot of stress. Unconditional love is amazing”
― Kelly Siskind, The Knockout Rule

“We see the world the way we want to see it. Warp our views to fir our own agenda”
― Kelly Siskind, The Knockout Rule

“I couldn't believe another man was lucky enough to have forever with you, then I couldn't believe he was stupid enough to throw it away.”
― Kelly Siskind, 50 Ways to Win Back Your Lover

“We were fifteen then, and I’d wanted to kiss him.
I was one day from twenty-eight now, and I wanted to devour him.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“Terrified he was about to say the three most terrifying words in the English language, I opened my ridiculous mouth, and blurted, "I stole your underwear."

Gwen Hamilton, winner of the Dumbest Confession Award.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“Just so you know, from one friend to another, I have a six-pack now.”
― Kelly Siskind, 50 Ways to Win Back Your Lover

“Each time I took a breath, Delilah’s body shifted against me, and it felt like I was inhaling those stars. Zillions of bright spots filling me up. Shooting stars in my arms. Exploding stars in my chest. A galaxy of stars glowing in my stomach, so endless and bright that I turned to Delilah, flush against her, her huge hair in my face, and whispered, “I love you.”
― Kelly Siskind, 50 Ways to Win Back Your Lover

“I still remembered the heat of his tongue and soft-wet press of his mouth. Or maybe I didn’t. Maybe I’d relived it so often, I’d fabricated every glorious detail.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“I want to be a lost fish with her. Or a pair of floating seahorses, mated forever, our tails tangled as our butts bump together with the tide.”
― Kelly Siskind, 50 Ways to Win Back Your Lover

“Instead of groups of seats, large white couches filled both sides, with a giant man sitting on the sectional at the right. Brick’s massive shoulders were hunched slightly as he frowned at his phone, his muscled forearms planted on his knees.”
― Kelly Siskind, The Knockout Rule

“Imperfections made people unique, each story and flaw mixing the colors that mapped their lives.”
― Kelly Siskind, New Orleans Rush

“Gwen was the only woman I’d ever imagined in my future. The only one I wanted in my bed now.
Today. This minute.”
― Kelly Siskind, Licks

“Mea levavot ihiyu meat midai kdei lehakhil et kol ha`ahava sheli elaikh,” he murmured. Her face softened with affection. “Is that Hebrew?” He nodded. “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
― Kelly Siskind, The Knockout Rule

“When I'm lost, you light the way.
When I'm down, you lift me up.
My life is full because of you.
Friend. Lover. Wife. Beautiful mother.
A partner in this life we're building.
When you need me, I'll be there to hold you.
Support you. Encourage you.
Find you when you're lost.
Lift you up when you're down.
No obstacles are too hard for us to conquer together.
I am forever and always yours.”
― Kelly Siskind, 10 Signs You Need to Grovel

“I love you, milaya.I've never felt this before. Can't even describe it.”
― Kelly Siskind, The Knockout Rule

“Not calling Sadie is doing nothing. Running off and ignoring your family is doing nothing. Pretending you're fine when you're not is doing nothing. All of that only leads to loneliness and heartache.”
― Kelly Siskind, 10 Signs You Need to Grovel

“She walked past an abstract painting that oozed wealth, the grotesquely simply kind with the white line drawn on a black canvas, as though saying: we're so powerful we pay millions for the mundane.”
― Kelly Siskind, The Beat Match

“As sscary as this is for you," Mom says evenly, "there's only one wrong move here."

I tongue my cracked tooth. "What's that?"

"Doing nothing.”
― Kelly Siskind, 10 Signs You Need to Grovel

“The price of closure is steep, but the price of avoidance is steeper”
― Kelly Siskind, 6 Clues Your Nemesis Loves You

“Is it the size of my wand? She did say she’d like to make it shoot sparks.”
― Kelly Siskind, New Orleans Rush

“Relationships aren't perfect, and you two have an intense history, but some people are worth fighting for. They're worth fighting with.”
― Kelly Siskind, 7 Steps to Seducing Your Fake Fiancé

“Dear God. It’s me, Beatrice. Thank you for inventing dirty talk.”
― Kelly Siskind, New Orleans Rush