Fiona Riley > Quotes

“You are the love of my life, Luce. You are the happy ending I'm always finding for my clients. You are the breath of fresh air that makes me feel alive. You are all I want. All the good and the bad, I'm here, I'll help shoulder the burden, because you are worth it. All of it I love you. I want you. I'm here.”
― Fiona Riley, Miss Match

“I love you. And I was wrong and pigheaded and felt a little blindsided, but I don't want to lose what I have with you. I don't want to miss out on anything we could possibly have because of my pride or my fear of inadequacy, or my stubbornness because the fact is you are the best thing that ever happened to me and I'm willing to fight for that.”
― Fiona Riley, Strike a Match

“Claire's arms never left her. She was steady and gentle—and she loved her. Shelly found solace in that revelation. She found peace there because she felt the same way.”
― Fiona Riley, Unlikely Match

“That was a hard lesson that she had learned in her youth: when your past comes back to haunt you, you treat it with politeness and respect because it helped you become who you are today. Embrace the good with the bad, because one day there won’t be anything to embrace but pain if you don’t forgive and move on. Resiliency—that’s what the social worker at the orphanage called it after her fourth home in as many years. She was resilient. Maybe that made her strong. Or maybe that just made her hard. Hard and strong were two very different things. She was definitely hardened, but was she more than that? Samantha and her mother seemed to think so. She had just finished purchasing”
― Fiona Riley, Miss Match

“You see hope in dark places and defend true love. You’re saving happy endings and giving them out because you believe in love, even if it’s a hard road.”
― Fiona Riley, Miss Match