Casey Griffin > Quotes

“At least I'm not afraid to do what I want to do and say what I want to say”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“The first thing Alex felt when Katie opened her front door was immense guilt. Well, first it was surprise over the dress she was wearing and how it made her honey eyes pop, and how it hugged her curves. And then he felt guilty for checking out those curves.

Alex wasn’t supposed to be checking out Katie’s anything. Katie Warner was off-limits.”
― Casey Griffin, Playing Her Secret Crush

“Senior year was about to begin. It meant a fresh start, a chance to really come out of her shell. This year, Katie would be confident, sexier, funnier. She’d be a better version of herself, someone who things happened for. She’d come first in life and not dead like she was used to.”
― Casey Griffin, Playing Her Secret Crush

“Money can't make you happy. But it sure can make you miserable when you don't have any”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“Sometimes they worked out, and sometimes they ended up requiring payday loans or laser tattoo removal to fix—never date an impulsive tattoo artist.”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“But there was something about being around dachshunds that made the loss a little less painful”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“I'm infected with perpetual late-itis. The doctor says it's terminal.”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“Although she wasn’t used to wearing so much makeup, she’d read that giving yourself a makeover gave you a boost of confidence. When she walked through the doors into Porterville High, she wanted heads to turn.”
― Casey Griffin, Playing Her Secret Crush

“Like a daft cow, I dropped my phone overboard the very first day. I would have bought another one at the next port, but I came down with food poisoning, if you can believe it. The seasickness didn’t help much, either. I spent the entire cruise locked in my room or in the infirmary.”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“...she'd learned that it was okay to rely on others”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“Money created a different sort of man, and she wanted no part of it...”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“Keep it breezy, she told herself. Totally blase. Big on the aloof, less on the doof”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“There are some things money can't buy, he said”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“Nothing in life worth having comes easy”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“But the person who I want the most, he said, doesn't want my help”
― Casey Griffin, Paws off the Boss

“From its depths, she pulled out the little bag she’d been stashing all summer. Her secret weapon for The Plan to get noticed: a new, lacy red pushup bra. Not that anyone would see it was lacy or red for that matter. Or would they? Eventually, maybe, but she was getting way ahead of herself.

The point was she was going to know she was wearing it. It would make her feel confident, like all those Victoria’s Secret models. And magazines always said the sexiest feature on a woman was confidence. If only that had come in a bottle at the cosmetics counter, too.”
― Casey Griffin, Playing Her Secret Crush