Erin Hahn > Quotes

“I wrote this song for a boy. A boy I fell in love with against impossible odds. So this award is for you, Jefferson. If I had to choose my favorite, you'd be mine.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“Lyrics do that sometimes. They find their home at just the right time. Like a secret message in a bottle, floating on a current for decades, only to wash up at someone's feet when the words are needed.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“But if I close my eyes
And wish it all away
Pretend I'm someone else,
Pretend I'm here to stay
Gave us half a chance,
Let my stupid heart decide
There's no doubt in my mind,
You'd be mine”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“The uncomfortable truth is, while the church loves sinners in their pews, they don't want them in front of a crowd. It's the difference between acceptance and tolerance.”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“It was pretend.

It was supposed to be this act professionals do for laughs. For profit. For whatever it was until it no longer was any of those things for the two people that mattered: me and him.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“Love is.... it's bringing an umbrella when rain is forecasted, but, like not for you. It's serenading someone off-key in the kitchen while they chop red peppers lenghtwise because they know you like them better that way. It's pulling the car in backward at night because your parner gets edgy when they have to back into morning traffic. It's buying moisturizer in bulk because one time they mentioned they liked the scent.
It's noticing things.Seeing parts of them even they might not know exist because you've been studying them since the moment you first laid eyes on them. It's memorizing their phone number even if you have it programmed because God forbid you ever lost your contacts. It's reading their mood by the song blaring through their headphones. It's experiencing something so extraordinary you can't tell if it was just that mind-blowing or if it's only because they were there with you that you were so affected by it.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“We’re quite the misfit pair, you and I. You, the former pastor’s kid who knew too much, and me, the youth group girl who knew nothing at all.”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“Maybe I selfishly figured out Clay was as lonely as I am. Or maybe I did hope he was pining after me a little. Not realistically, of course, but in a faraway kind of way. Like in the way one might daydream about a popular boy in school who the teacher assigns as your lab partner. Your relationship is purely based on frog spleens and formaldehyde, but sometimes he laughs at your joke and you think... maybe. Maybe.

It's the "maybe" I'm mourning. The daydreams, even. That's what I'm all out of sort about. My lab partner asked someone else to the dance, and I'm left with the uncomfortable realization he was just being polite.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“I shut out the world only to take in the universe. My skin tingles in anticipation, like little live wires dancing across my surface. A chemistry found only in the divine. How do I know God is real? Because of this.”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“It sounds lonelier than it is. But I'd rather lose myself in a sea of strangers than find myself one-on-one with an acquaintance.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“Love is the lyrics to someone else's melody.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“Are you hitting on me, Mathers?"
"Yes. I don't know. Maybe. Why? Is it working?”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“There are two kinds of people in the world," Phil says, taking a pull from his tea. "The kind who listen to music and the kind who live inside it.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“The only time churches are worried about modesty and purity is when it comes to their teenage girls. I think maybe you all need to take a hard look at why that is?”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“If I had to choose my favorite, you'd be mine.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“Because the uncomfortable truth is, while the church loves sinners in their pews, they don’t want them in front of a crowd. It’s the difference between acceptance and tolerance and it might catch on.”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“I need music. Give me angsty lyrics, the heartfelt plucking of strings, passionate and world-weary pleas. Give me the banging of keys, the staccato of backbeats, the gift of swing and swoon. If I slice open my heart and put the rhythm to song, will she hear it?”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“It’s real hard to remember all the garbage life chucks at you when you’re clinging to a thousand pounds of pure freedom by the skin of your knees.”
― Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart

“Wherever these boys are finding their denim, I want a lifetime membership to their mailing catalog.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“Winnie Sutton makes me want to be better. Not to deserve her or anything so angsty as that. Just, I want to be okay again. Whole. Productive.”
― Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart

“That’s the glorious thing about music. It speaks to the very heart of things in the most absolute and obtrusive way.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“So that's that, then. You don't want me."
"Oh, I want you. Never doubt that. But now isn't the right time. So I'm going to turn around, walk through that door" -his mouth twitches in the corner- "and pretend to sleep while replaying that kiss until I give up and drown myself in a cold shower.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“And that, boys and girls, is the story of how stone-cold Annie Mathers found her lady parts.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“He still doesn't realize how much he doesn't need to convince me. I'm there, man. I've been there. I practically live there. RIP my sanity, send your regards to 1234 Shelby Is Pathetic for Cameron Street.”
― Erin Hahn, Built to Last

“I don't believe in fate. I believe in music.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“Hey, Micah?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you think we’ll ever have a regular old mundane boring conversation?”

“Regular, sure. Mundane? I hope. Boring? Not possible with you.”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“My pathetic heart couldn't be clearer on the issue of Jefferson. This song is a confession and a condemnation in one; regretting something that was over before it even began. But I know, I know, it would have been big. It would have been real and true and sappy as hell.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine

“She’s waving that same hand-printed sign with unbridled enthusiasm, blocking the view of at least four people behind her. It’s a good look for her. No barn coat, no siblings, nothing to prove. Just Winnie being Winnie. God, I love her.”
― Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart

“When there’s no one else, and I’m at the end of my tether, that’s where I feel God. In the waves pummeling me and the sun baking me and ground surging up around me. That’s my fucking church.”
― Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming

“What comes to mind when you think of Clay Coolidge?"
(...)
"Sex appeal, boozehound, makes love to the mic, rock star, stadium filler.”
― Erin Hahn, You'd Be Mine