May Archer > Quotes

“Ash?" He raised one eyebrow. "When we look back on this night, do you want us to remember it as the night you went hungry because you'd made do with a f*cking salad?”
― May Archer, Heart2Heart: A Charity Anthology

“How was it possible to want to lick someone and punch them in their stupidly handsome face at the same time?”
― May Archer, Heart2Heart: A Charity Anthology

“And at that moment, you could have told me that Vermont contained nothing but rabid tourists and homicidal cows, and I would have told you it was all worthwhile, because holy shit, lumbersexuals were even hotter in their natural habitat.”
― May Archer, Pick Me

“Here's a fact for you to ponder. This town can go weeks without a fucking fire. Weeks without even a malfunctioning smoke detector! And then suddenly? Thanksgiving rolls around, and my tiny, black heart starts to beat double-time with pure fear. Do you know why that is Joe?
...Because it means Christmas is coming. Christmas, as in the time of year when people purposefully bring highly flammable decaying shrubbery inside their homes, festoon it with electrical wires, place brightly wrapped kindling underneath it, and say "It's so fucking magical.”
― May Archer, The Night

“I somehow managed to keep smiling when what I really wanted was to throw my drink in his face, but that would be a waste of perfectly wonderful alcohol.”
― May Archer, Heart2Heart: A Charity Anthology

“Hard and easy don't matter when there's no Plan B”
― May Archer, The Easy Way

“Firsts aren’t good enough,” he said, as serious as Cam had ever seen him. “Because I don’t just want your firsts. I want your onlys, Cam. Your lasts, your in-betweens. I want your always.”
― May Archer, The Easy Way

“Maybe once you’ve fought the good fight and things didn’t work out, it’s okay to let it go and to be happy with what you still have. You don’t have to stay angry forever.”
― May Archer, The Fall

“If love is an eternal thing, Ev? Then he loves you still. And he wants you to be happy. Your grief is a monument to his death, just like my mom and her endless fucking memorials. Your happiness is a monument to his love.”
― May Archer, The Fall

“I felt like I'd somehow gotten stuck in a scene from one of those cheesy TV movies I never watched because they were too unrealistic...Except apparently somehow, unbelievably, this had become my real life.”
― May Archer, The Night

“Like, being someone’s priority. Knowing you’re the most important thing and they care for your happiness as much as their own, but that’s okay because you care for their happiness as much as your own, so it all evens out.” Mason’s green eyes widened. “Oh my God.” “What?” “You! You just explained to me what love is. In multiple sentences. Of fucking… flowery prose.”
― May Archer, The Secret

“She’d taught us that organized religion was even less trustworthy than the government. Heaven and hell, she’d said, were concepts created millennia ago to hobble the minds of the masses.”
― May Archer, The Secret

“Sometimes the truest things are the weirdest ones, the ones you think couldn’t possibly work. And I think…” He hesitated. “I think a lot of the time when people do really remarkable shit, it’s because they didn’t know they couldn’t, or they didn’t listen when people told them they weren’t supposed to.”
― May Archer, The Easy Way

“Mason moaned, a filthy sound that made my cock jump to life like my mom’s old border collie hearing the rattle of keys. Wanna go for a ride, Charlie? Fuck yes, I did.”
― May Archer, Off Plan

“Because he’s brave,” Helena said. “Takes a brave person to be sensitive and unafraid.”
― May Archer, Pick Me

“all the alarm bells in my brain should have been going off because the train to Good Choices had left the station and I was not on board, but they’d all gone silent.”
― May Archer, The Secret

“No,” I resumed walking. “I’m not up in his business either. Not like that. We’re friends. We decided.”

“You realize that saying you decided to be friends implies that there were other choices besides friendship.”
― May Archer, Off Plan

“Maybe, yeah. But in the future, you’ll find people who appreciate you for who you are. And all the things that make you feel like you don’t fit now? Those are the very things those people will fall in love with when the time is right.”
― May Archer, Cherry Picked

“I wouldn’t go traipsing into the fucking Forbidden Forest here for just anyone.”
― May Archer, The Gift

“Saying you’re sorry is like shorthand,” he mused. “Like saying, ‘I’ve been there too, and I know it sucks, but you’re not the only person who’s been in this awful place. You’re not alone.”
― May Archer, The Fall

“Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts. George F. Tilton”
― May Archer, The Gift

“My first experience at being attracted to someone had ended in an utter fucking disaster of a kiss when I’d misread the signs and thought my friend returned my feelings.”
― May Archer, The Rivals of Copper County

“The poor man’s pearls have probably never been clutched so hard.”
― May Archer, Pick Me

“I’m tired of talking. Talking doesn’t fix anything when the people you’re talking to have no desire to change. All it does is make you more frustrated.”
― May Archer, Cherry Picked

“And If the Universe was sentient enough to be sending out warnings to certain people, I could only conclude it hated me, because it hadn’t sent me a warning for any damn thing, ever, as evidenced by the fact that I lived on a forgotten island with my hick cousins and my wacky uncle, and hadn’t had sex since January.”
― May Archer, Off Plan

“and that he wasn’t just my first guy, he was probably also my only.”
― May Archer, The Rivals of Copper County

“I’d thanked her politely and given her a large bag full of condoms, but I had not stopped by. If her group had found a way to make mahjong into foreplay, I did not possess the mental fortitude to know about it.”
― May Archer, Off Plan

“I should know better than to make fun of anyone for what they love to read. There’s a reason there are a billion books in the world.”
― May Archer, The Gift

“No,” Daniel said. “Someone who finds their words meaningful. Someone who derives so much enjoyment from the thing they’ve poured their heart and soul into. Roald Dahl said, ‘Lukewarm is no good.’ He said you have to be an enthusiast in life. And frankly, if more people focused on finding the joy in their own lives, they wouldn’t spend so much time trying to tear other people down.”
― May Archer, The Gift

“So don’t tell me it’s impossible just because it’s improbable, Liam, because you’ve got to leave room for all the improbable, magical shit in this world.”
― May Archer, The Night