Lynn Painter > Quotes

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

“She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“You look best when you're you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Sometimes we get so tied up in our idea of what we think we want that we miss out on the amazingness of what we could actually have.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“She’s pretty, but her face doesn’t transform into sunlight when she talks about music.” He did that clench thing with his jaw and said, “She’s funny, but not spit-out-your-drink-in-astonishment funny.” It felt like my heart was going to explode as his eyes moved down to my lips under the glow of the buzzing streetlight. He moved his face a little closer to mine, looked into my eyes, and rumbled, “And when I see her, I don’t feel like I have to talk to her or mess up her hair or do something—anything—to get her to swing that gaze on me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“When I'm around you, I kind of feel like I'm on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case, I do them all the time. All of them.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Music made everything better.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“I did what I had to. All is fair in love and parking.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“When I brought my eyes back to his, I knew without a doubt that if we were anywhere else—alone—he would kiss me. He swallowed, and my eyes tracked down to his throat before slowly climbing back up by way of his strong chin, nose, and dark-as-night brown eyes.

He raised one eyebrow, an unspoken question, and I realized at that moment that I wanted it. I wanted Wes. Michael had been my endgame, but I couldn’t bring myself to care about that anymore.

I wouldn’t run through a train station for Michael. But I would do it for Wes.

Holy shit.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Do you realize we could’ve been doing this for years if you weren’t such a pain in the ass?”
“Nah—I didn’t like you until recently.”
“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”
“You poor, confused little love lover.” A giggle shimmied through me before I set my hands on his face and said as I pulled him back to me, “Just shut up and kiss me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“A girl will never forget the first boy she likes.” —He’s Just Not That into You “But she’ll also never forget the first boy she hates.” —Liz Buxbaum”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“When you’re in the room, every single cell in my body – every nerve, every muscle, every breath – is lost in you.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I am just Wes fucking Bennett, Lib, the guy who can't remember a single day in his life when he didn't love you.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“Hey—don’t ditch me until I find Michael, okay?”

“Call me ‘Wessy,’ and I totally won’t.”

I snorted. “Fine. If you ditch me, Wessy, I will stab you with the keg tap.”

“My little Libby is such a savage.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Be brave enough to go big.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“In your dreams, Bennett,” she teased.
“Every damn night, Buxbaum,”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“I could say these unfiltered things to him because he didn’t care. Wes Bennett knew what a mess I was underneath it all, and there was a little bit of joy in knowing he saw the real me. Freedom.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Also—thanks to Taylor Swift, for writing songs that feel like books.”
― Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

“because of things like car accidents and lost loves, life and death and broken hearts, we should grab every moment and absolutely devour the good parts.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“I exist to exist alongside of you.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“There was never anyone else for me but you.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“I had a marvelous time ruining everything”
― Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

“But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.” —10 Things I Hate About You”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Wes: Make sure you add “Someone Like You” to the Wes and Liz playlist.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Please don’t ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere—”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“We were both grinning, and for some reason, I felt an invisible string pulling me closer to her as she smiled up to me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“My inheritance was the knowledge that love is always in the air, always a possibility, and always worth it.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“You suppose? What on earth could she possibly be lacking? Do you want bigger boobs or something? Is she not—” “She’s not you.” “What?” “She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies