Elise Bryant > Quotes

“Why do his words get to come out all flawlessly Times New Roman, and mine are, like, Wingdings?”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“And that is the greatest risk, presenting something you love and asking others to love it too.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“My brother has disabilities.
We used to call it special needs before a teacher pointed out that his needs aren't special. They're just his.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“That's really the point of romance as a genre, women asking for what they want, without apology.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“Sometimes the inspiration is there, and sometimes it's not, but you can't force it. It's not a light switch or something.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“If this were a Marvel movie, this would be my villain origin story. I would devote the rest of my life to rooting out fuckboys, exposing their crimes against womankind, and then like murdering them or whatever, until some guy in spandex knocks a building on me”
― Elise Bryant, One True Loves

“But a good love story is smart. Empowering. It's why I've been drawn to the genre for as long as I can remember. ~ Page 316. From the book Happily Ever Afters”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I’m done taking up less space than I deserve.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I think there’s something to be said for making art just to make you happy. Not to win awards or impress others or get the attention of your parents who can be a little clueless at”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks, but it took J.D. Salinger like... ten years to write the Catcher in the Rye, and that book is like WAY short.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“There's no guidebook, no eleven-step plan. No best friend or boyfriends leading the way. Just freedom to make the choices I want. I only need to figure out first what I want those choices to be. ~Page 342”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“As he climbs the stairs, I think, He deserves this. Putting his heart and joy on a plate for others, being his authentic self, taking the risk that so many of us are afraid to—pushing past the fear that I let paralyze me and force me into letting go of something I love so much. And that is the greatest risk, presenting something that you love and asking others to love it too.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I’m sure the TikTok you learned that from was accurate.” I scoff. “Uh, it was actually a Reddit post referencing a TikTok.” “Oh, so it was peer reviewed?”
― Elise Bryant, The Game Is Afoot

“Writing is you.
And if you don't have writing, then who are you?
How do you fit into your new school, your family...this friendship?
The tears I was holding back flow freely now.
"Writing is my whole identity, you know? It's the one thing I have. The one thing I'm good at. Like, that makes me special?”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“What do they say? Write what you know? You need to know more to write more.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I thought I loved you right when I met you, but I hadn't earned it yet, that feeling. Because I didn't know you yet. But now I do. I know your talent and how bright you shine. I know your worries and your fears, which you've shared with me, so bravely, eben when I didn't deserve it. And I know you're not perfect - I don't expect you to be perfect either. But, sweetheart, you're a treasure to me all the same”
― Elise Bryant , Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

“And that is the greatest risk, presenting something that you love & asking others to love it too”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“You are the literal opposite of regular. You're a glittery, flying unicorn and a gift to this world that I treasure more than anything.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“It’s . . . cute, how he gets all worked up about spices. It reminds me of the time he let it slip that his stand mixer was named Ethel.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I've got all the lines for you. As many lines as you could possibly dream of, because you are deserving of lines from here to eternity.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“She’s probably used to being held like that, being looked at like that. It’s foreign to me, though. No boy has ever seen me in that way, because I’m not a girl like Poppy. It’s not as if I don’t think I’m pretty. When I look in the mirror, I generally like what I see. I don’t wish I had straight hair or lighter skin. It’s just that, to most guys, my kind of pretty isn’t the same as Poppy’s kind of pretty—even with the gray hair. I’m an acquired taste, and Poppy is, like, pizza. Pizza doesn’t have to worry if people are just ordering it to look cool or complete some type of image. No one goes through a pizza phase. Pizza is universal.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I spend so much of my life trying to be the Lenore people expect. Letting things rolls off me, too confident and self-assured to care. But that's not all of me. That's just the side of me that's easy to be around. What would happen if I showed the other side, the side that's pissed off and sad and hurt and not so easy sometimes?”
― Elise Bryant, One True Loves

“everyone keeps falling for it because, why? She can cry on demand? White-woman tears really are the most powerful thing on this earth.”
― Elise Bryant, The Game Is Afoot

“The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter.”
― Elise Bryant , It's Elementary

“I’m sweaty. I’m exhausted. I’m trying to figure out how many more cups of coffee I’ll need to drink to make it through the eight hours of work before me when it’s only 7: 56 a.m. and I’ve already lived an entire day.”
― Elise Bryant, It's Elementary

“My friend Jasmine says I have resting bitch face."

"Nothing wrong with that. Keeps away the annoying people.”
― Elise Bryant, It's Elementary

“You're willing to take risks and explore new things. And that's all a strength, not a weakness. I don't think there's anything about you that needs to be fixed, Lenore. You're perfect just the way you are.”
― Elise Bryant, One True Loves

“I was scared you were going to change your mind. Scared that I'm too much and also not enough at the same time.”
― Elise Bryant, One True Loves

“it’s actually capitalism and white supremacy that drive us to prove our worth through our labor, and we can choose to remove ourselves from that system. Because freedom can also look like not having your worth tied to your work.”
― Elise Bryant, The Game Is Afoot

“Nothing I give will ever be enough because Pearl deserves even more. And if I, the person who loves her more than anyone, am not giving her everything, then what hope do I have that the world will even give her a fraction? That everyone else will value her and treasure her because they see just how valued and treasured she already is?”
― Elise Bryant, The Game Is Afoot