Callie Harper > Quotes

“She dissolved into giggles, a tear forming at the corner of her eye. “I don’t want to go back to juicing!” she declared, cracking herself up even more. “I want scones and bacon!”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“But, see, that kind of thinking only led to self-pity and that might be the quality I hated most in people. That and self-conceit. I refused to harbor either. I’d made my mistakes. I’d own them. And I’d move on from there,”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“I guess I didn’t picture you with a gram.” “How do you think I came to be?” “I don’t know. Maybe you grew like a mighty oak in the woods.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“It was tempting to throw a tantrum, stomp your foot and demand that things be different. But growing up and being an adult didn’t so much allow for that. Chin up, shoulders back, you had to do tough things like acknowledge your role in creating your own problems. The best you could do was try to move on, learning from your mistakes and doing better next time. Sometimes in life you simply had to accept that things didn’t always work out like they did in romantic movies.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“You’ve spent a lot of time being successful. Now maybe you can spend some time being happy?”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“What did you do when you had no job, no boyfriend, no life? You crawled onto your mom’s couch and wore a melon-colored sweat suit from the sale rack at Walmart for several days on end, that’s what.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“Ever since I’d started dating, I’d only spent time with the type of man who’d take me out to fancy restaurants where he paid the bill. Too bad none of them had ever made my heart pound like this giant man in a battered old pickup truck.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“making me feel like nothing bad would ever happen to me again in life. He had me. He’d protect me, cherish and treasure me.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. All right, it wasn’t Casablanca and Violet and I weren’t exactly war-torn lovers reunited. We’d made out in my truck. Not exactly Bogie and Bacall caliber romance.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“Advice was so easy to give. Knowing what to do with it once it was given to you, now that was the real trick.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“Because I obviously didn’t want to get kidnapped. No one did, not really. But if I did ever get kidnapped, please Lord let it be by a man who looked like him.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“I wasn’t a religious man, but something about the woods at night always struck me. Surrounded by the crystal quiet, the ancient oaks and maples and pines stretching their way up to the sky, it reminded you how small you were. How insignificant your troubles were, in comparison with the great world beyond.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“Have beard hear me roar.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed

“It made me think of some of the L.A. boys I’d been with, the way I’d catch them watching themselves in the mirror while they were supposedly making love to me. Hard to make love to someone else when what you loved most was your own image.”
― Callie Harper, Untamed