Sarah Morgenthaler > Quotes

“The penis was causing problems, as penises tended to do.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“Okay, let's start this over. Hi. My name is Graham, and I want a burrito. Give me her room key, or I'll kill you.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“I can't breathe."

"It's the lower oxygen up here."

"No. I can't breathe when you're next to me.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“You don't always know where you'll end up in life. All that matters is that you're next to the right person for the journey.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“Pain can make us become people we aren't.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“Trespassing—” Wheeze wheeze. “In an airport—” Cough cough choke snort. “Is punishable—dang it. Graham?”

“Yeah, man.” He eyeballed the guy on top of him. “Hey, Joey, do you think you can arrest me in a minute? I’m trying to win my dream girl here.”

“How’s it going?”

“Well, I’m getting spooned by you and not her, so you tell me.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“Beauty was more than skin deep. Beauty was a kind heart and hands willing to help, no matter how dirty they got. Beauty was a quick grin and eyes that noticed everyone in a room. Noticed and cared about everyone, no matter who they were.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“The life he wanted—the one he’d been waiting for—had started the moment she walked into it.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“And here I thought I was shooting too high asking you out for a coffee."

"Did I miss you asking me out for a coffee?"

"Only half a dozen times in my head.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“I'm a person lasagna. Too many layers."

"I don't know," he rumbled. "I've always kind of liked lasagna."

"Even when lasagna was being stubborn?"

"Especially when lasagna was being stubborn." His strong hands slid into her hair, now damp from sweat. "It's my favorite part about lasagna.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“I am. You should always be a little afraid of what the mountains are capable of doing. We’re nothing to them, a speck on the ground. A flea trying to hop to the top of a man’s head.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“Sometimes the more you want to have a connection with someone, the harder it is to make it happen. The best thing to do is sit back and let the world bring your people to you. Isn't it better to have one or two of the right ones instead of a hundred wrong ones?”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“Guy is honey on rustic bread, sweet and warm and a little rough around the edges. A safe place to hide for a while.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Christmas You Found Me

“I’m not lonely.” Except Ash spent a lot of time by herself, flying supplies up and down the state. Years of knowing her had taught Rick that the lonelier she felt, the more she smoked. “You’re not not lonely.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“Sometimes messy is the best part. Sometimes it's worth it.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“He was drowning in her, and there was nothing that could make him come up for air.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“Hate to break it to you, but if you jump, I'm jumping after you. It's the way I'm wired."

"Fine, but all rescue attempts have to be made shirtless with your hair down.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“You’re leaving, Zo. I can’t…” He hesitated. “This isn’t some summertime romance. I’m not sixteen. I need more in my life, and I can’t just fall for you.”

“I never asked you to.”

“Darlin’, you might not be asking me to. But every time you turn those gorgeous eyes my way, you’re sure as shit daring me to.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“Loving her hadn’t broken him. Her leaving, that was what was crushing them both.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“Guy looks at his daughter fondly, then turns the same look my way too. “What my girls want, they get,” he says.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Christmas You Found Me

“You're cimmomin." He took a strand of her hair, inhaling deeply. "It's my favorite. Cimmonin and apples. You're my favorite."

"This isn't happening. "Zoey took Rick by the shoulders, shaking him. "Don't, okay? Do not profess your innermost secrets. Rick, no secrets.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“familiarity too often bred contempt.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“With the dark came the stars. He’d spent a lot of nights for a lot of years sitting beneath this sky, and it was an old friend.

Some nights, it felt like his best friend.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right

“Groaning in exasperation, Easton closed his eyes.

"Are you counting to ten?" River sounded as suspicious as he had been. "You are not counting to ten, because I'm a grown-ass woman, dammit. You don't get to count to ten when dealing with me.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“If the universe had put polka dots on a barrel and made it look bitter about life, that was her horse.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“With the grace of a sack of potatoes, Zoey did as directed.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction

“Because we thought we were going up there to film about Moose Springs. But every shot, every scene, there's this stuff. It's you and him. Everywhere, every scene. This is a real-life love story, River.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“You're a really tall, very stong man. Men like you do this thing with their shoulders when they talk to someone they're attracted to. They kind of drop them, a subconscious effort to make themselves less large, less intimidating."

...

"Hey buddy. You were going both shoulders there. Just sayin'."

"Shut up.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“Easton was going to die with the name of every person he’d ever cared about etched onto his heart. The names weren’t many, but they ran deep.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Enjoy the View

“(...)

"I buy a new copy every coiple of years, I try to read the newer stuff, but sometimes you want to open a book and know you'll be happy with what you read. It's like..."

"Like an old friend.”
― Sarah Morgenthaler, Mistletoe and Mr. Right