Briar Prescott > Quotes

“Ah, sweet self-delusion. My oldest and dearest friend.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“I hate him.
I hate him.
I hate him.
And look at that.
Now he’s made me into a liar, too.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“Nevertheless, I power through. This is not my first foray into making an ass out of myself in front of a guy. Eventually, you develop a system. Mine is to ignore all of my fuck-ups until the other person starts to think they never happened. I’m a master at playing mind games.”
― Briar Prescott, The Underdog

“He made me love him.

He turned himself into my home.

Now he’s gone.

And I’m homeless.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“You’re a good person, Andy Carter, and as far as I’m concerned, that makes you a hero in my book.”
― Briar Prescott, Project Hero

“I want you to fucking fight for me,” he says. “I want you to fight for us. I want you to tell me you love me and that you want me and have me and keep me and be with me. Forever. But most of all, I want you to be happy. I want you to stop all the lying and hiding and just be fucking happy. With or without me.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“Saying ‘I can’t live without you’ is pretty much equivalent to saying ‘I’m with you because I don’t have any other choice.’ And that’s fucking stupid. And we’re not gonna do that. I can live without you. I just choose not to. And I’m terrified as fuck, still, by the way. But… I also love you more than I’m afraid.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“The only important thing to know is that most of those carefree laughs are my doing. It’s a heady feeling. Like I’ve conquered something. Risen to unimaginable heights. But it doesn’t feel like I’ve tamed a beast. More like I’ve set him free.”
― Briar Prescott, The Dating Experiment

“How do you explain a void so endless it sometimes feels like your whole existence is made up of an absence.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“Hope is a dangerous thing.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“His lips devour me. Own me. Claim me. It feels just as safe as I was afraid it would. But even being scared is safe with him.”
― Briar Prescott, And Then You

“I think, after all these years of hiding, I might finally want to be seen again.”
― Briar Prescott, Maybe You

“No wonder you thought I wouldn't get it. Hey, as a lighting expert, what are those things called in the ceiling of my office? I've been referring to them as little suns and asking the maintenance to fuel my tiny suns every time one of them burns out, and then I yell a star is born when it shines again in the morning.' -Gray”
― Briar Prescott, The Happy List

“I never told you the details of how Cea and I started dating...I was worried and embarrassed back then about my decided lack of interest, in, well, everybody. I went out on date, well that part doesn’t really matter Cecilia was auditing a company representing at the time and there was a court case involved so we spent a lot of time together and became friends. Everything else, dating and being attracted to her, that followed after.”
“What are you saying here?“ Kai asks.
“I’m saying,“ I take a step closer, “ that I don’t get attracted to people that easily. In fact, it almost never happens. So I don’t think we can draw any fundamental conclusions about my sexuality. And maybe we don’t have to. I’ve never felt the need to label myself before, so why can’t I say I am more attracted to you and anyone else?”
― Briar Prescott, The Happy List

“Go on a date with me"
[...]He sees something he wants and goes for it, which makes him so much braver than I’ve ever been.
“I dare you.”

Do not even think about it, Connor. You need two letters. N and o. Now get them out of your mouth.

“You’re on.”

Wrong order, you fucking idiot.”
― Briar Prescott, The Dating Experiment

“I love you,” he says. I take a deep breath and let it all out with a huge gush. “I love you too.” This time nobody runs.”
― Briar Prescott, Maybe You

“Please,” Blake repeats. “She asked me to find you⁠—”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“I sometimes think the only reason I was put on this earth is to love you.”
― Briar Prescott, The Island

“Did you know who I was?” I choke out. Please, fucking say no. I’m hopelessly hoping, even though I already see the answer on his face. “Yes,” Blake says. “I knew who you were.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“I'll end up with a boatload of, I don't even know... chairs that'll remind me of my failure for years to come. Eventually I'll start conversing to the chairs because I'm so bitter and lonely, and before you know it, I'll start treating them as my children, and you'll start receiving Christmas cards from me and my family of chairs. I'll die surrounded by my chair children, and you'll have to transport them all to my funeral and set them up next to the grave, which is both sad and convenient because my human mourners, the few there might be, can sit on my kids.' -Kai”
― Briar Prescott, The Happy List

“I have loved you from afar. Desperately. Quietly. I have craved and yearned and ached and wanted. For years. For the better part of my life.” My eyes are burning, and I want to squeeze them shut. I want to hide. I don’t. “For you us started on that island. For me we started long before that.” I dash the back of my hand over my eyes and take a big breath. “For me, it’s always been you. Just you. Always you.” I squeeze my hands into fists and my nails dig into my palms.”
― Briar Prescott, The Island

“He winces like I’ve thrown stones at him. I want it to hurt. I want to say every cruel thing I can think of and hurl it in his face. Hurt him like he’s hurting me. Break him like he’s breaking me.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“Shh,” I say as I pat the wheel. “He’ll hear you.”
“He?” Gray arches his brow. “Aren’t vehicles usually a she?”
“He seemed more appropriate when considering how much time I spend inside him." - Kai”
― Briar Prescott, The Happy List

“The sounds somebody else makes while they’re moving around in my apartment should feel weird. I’ve been alone for years now. I’m used to the quiet and being the only person around. Instead, Blake’s presence is like a warm blanket after stumbling around in a snowstorm.”
― Briar Prescott, Until You

“The looks he aims my way? Full of dirty thoughts. To the brim. His gaze is overflowing with them, and it’s terrifying because if there’s anything I want at all, it’s another taste. Not even a taste. I want a full meal. I want to fill up on Ryker James, and even that doesn’t feel like it would be enough. Yup. Terrifying. So I ignore it because”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“He turns on the music and hums along, then sings along. Badly. Really, very badly. He’s goddamn awful, is what I’m saying, but somehow it’s also really charming. He keeps butchering Coldplay. I keep looking at him. And it hits me then—suddenly and loudly, in a way that is impossible to ignore—just how dangerous nice boys can be.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“If you were an orphan, and I was a billionaire, I wouldn’t adopt you,” I tell him. “I’d take every other kid off the streets. And then once that’s done, I’d drive past you in my orphan party bus and flip you off.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“We’re not in a fucking teen comedy for fucking fuck’s sake!”
― Briar Prescott, The Christmas Switch

“The guy’s a dick. No, not dick. I like dicks. The guy’s an empty bottle of lube. Useless and frustrating.”
― Briar Prescott, The Dating Experiment

“No. Listen. You’re an orange. If people only scrape the surface, they don’t like the taste, right? It’s all bitter and acidic, and not very enjoyable. But if you peel the thing, it’s delicious.” Noah looked proud and smug at the same time as he poked Alex’s cheek with his finger. “You’re. An. Orange.”
― Briar Prescott, Rare