Monica McCallan > Quotes

“People need people. It’s the flaw in our design.”
― Monica McCallan, The Flaw in Our Design

“Sometimes the best things in life aren’t things we fight for but that unexpectedly fall into our laps.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“And I'm so, so sick of not the getting to tell you every day that I love you, to get to wake up next to you in the morning and kiss you.”
― Monica McCallan, Back to the Start

“People can always move forward, but I think there’s a lot about who you became that was impacted by who you used to be.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Being wanted and wanting someone back aren’t the same thing.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Southerners don’t do mental breakdowns. We just get more and more eccentric and cover it in colloquialisms to throw people off.”
― Monica McCallan, Vesting Period

“Truth? The truth was ambiguous. And contextually relevant. The truth changed as new information appeared. The same truth looked different to people depending on which side of it they stood on. Depending on their own perspective.”
― Monica McCallan, Perspective

“Most relationships ended. That was a statistical fact, but there were so many amazing things that happened along the way.”
― Monica McCallan, Then & Now

“Was it Tennyson who’d said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? If so, that guy was an idiot as far as Quinn was concerned. The well of loneliness was vast, but so was the well of despair. At least in the former, no one else was drowning with her.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“Everything seems a lot more obvious when you’re on the outside of it.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“You can’t make someone do something, but you can make your own choices to give yourself the best possible shot at happiness.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“she wasn't in control of herself anymore, wanting to touch Fallon, badly. So, she did. Because she made terrible life choices sometimes.”
― Monica McCallan, Back to the Start

“They never show you all the times that grand gestures go horribly wrong. Life isn't like the movies.”
― Monica McCallan, Back to the Start

“Taking a chance isn’t a bad thing, even if it doesn’t turn out how we hope.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“It was like Brooke was a radio frequency Kennedy hadn’t been tuned into before, and now something had smacked her on the side of the head and edged the dial into just the right spot to make her crystal clear.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“Heartbreak could be a powerful motivator to do anything to avoid looking inward and dealing with her emotions.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“She was more than pretty. She was soft but strong. Patient yet demanding.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“The nice thing about men is that they generally didn't pick up on the subtext of questions, typically accepting the face value meaning.”
― Monica McCallan, Sweat Equity

“Being with you can’t be harder than being without you. Seems like a risk worth taking, no?”
― Monica McCallan, The Flaw in Our Design

“Perspective was a funny thing like that. It didn't change the problem, but it did help you see it in a different light.”
― Monica McCallan, Sweat Equity

“She hated that she had to put her job first and couldn’t even let herself wander down the paths of what-ifs and maybes and spend some days in the blissful haze of second chances.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“I'm just glad I accomplished what I came here to do. And it's a nice family with kids, so it makes me happy that another generation will get to grow up in the house." "That's sweet. I'm sure that would make your grandmother happy." "Me too." Remy gave her first real smile since this conversation started. She knew Fallon was right.”
― Monica McCallan, Back to the Start

“It was hard to quantify her style, but she heard the term 'Chapstick lesbian' once and liked it immensely. She wore dresses infrequently, but she liked a little bit of makeup every now and then and enjoyed feeling put together. Maybe 'lip-gloss lesbian' was more appropriate, as she did go the extra mile to always have a perfect sheen on her lips.”
― Monica McCallan, Back to the Start

“A beautiful woman offering to buy Brooke a cannoli and walk around the city with her. That was what dreams were made of.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“I try to figure out if the person makes me better. If I want to be better when I'm with them.”
― Monica McCallan, Sweat Equity

“As a lesbian in a small town, there weren’t many opportunities for her mother to play matchmaker, though that didn’t stop her from sighing meladramatically from time to time and saying, “I just want my baby to be happy,” like she did now, staring wistfully out the window. “Mom,” Lucy whined. “You literally know nothing about her except that she’s pretty.” Jill beamed. “So you think she’s pretty?”
― Monica McCallan, Tapping into Love

“I feel like, in a lot of ways, I’m getting to know a stranger, but there are also these pangs of familiarity that take me by surprise.”
― Monica McCallan, Back in Your Arms

“The surge of disappointment washed over her. This was what she wanted, but she felt the strangest sense like she’d lost something.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“I think it’s normal to be scared that things will change, but good change is just as likely as bad change.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“Lucy’s really pulled out all the stops these last few years. She’s a real-life Leslie Knope as far as Maple Run is concerned.”
― Monica McCallan, Tapping into Love