Cindy Steel > Quotes

“You are a rush to me. Every time I make you smile, my heart rate goes through the roof. The way you blush and bite your lip and pretend to be annoyed when I tease you…” He patted his chest. “Straight shot of dopamine. Let’s not even talk about what your laugh does to me. But you’re not just my dopamine hit. You’re my soft place to land when I come back down. I don’t need you to go skydiving with me. Or rock climbing. I’m perfectly happy reading a book. Or hanging out watching a movie with you. But there are times when I’d want us to get out of our comfort zones. Make some memories. I want to pick our moments, whatever they are, and live them.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Technically, I went to bed at 10 pm, but in girl-with-a-Kindle time, it was actually closer to 2 am,”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“You’re on my Kindle. And I’ve read your books more
times than Jane Eyre.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Hope and fear often occupy the same space. But in reality, there can be only one. You have to choose.”
― Cindy Steel, The One with the Kiss Cam

“I just feel like avoiding my problems has served me really well these past few months. I’d hate to ruin that now.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“and I realized that a person doesn’t reach the capacity for love. Love just is. It’s all-encompassing. There’s no trade-off. I don’t have to sacrifice my love for your dad or you and Chloe to love Russ. He doesn’t take any of your dad’s place in my heart because the heart doesn’t retract–it expands. My heart grew bigger for Russ. But I will always ache for your dad.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“You can ‘what if’ your whole life
away. Relationships are always going to be scary, whether we work together or not. There are always unknowns, but you’ve got to take a chance on something, or else you’re going to spend your life wondering what could have been.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“What kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn’t take care of my woman?” I stared after him. “The fake kind.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“I had always allowed myself to cry in
private. But outside my doors, I was a rock. A machine. Holding myself rigid so as not to break. Any cracks or flaws at all and I would be done. Broken. I refused to be broken at work, or with my family. Only alone. Only at home.


But now I started to wonder if maybe being broken wasn’t a flaw. Maybe it was a beautiful shard of glass that could one day be made into a vase again. Maybe the flaw gave it character. It couldn’t be whole again, but it could be pieced back together—each unique shard helping to press and hold the others into place, some glue around the edges.
Almost like new.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“The first few years, I forced myself to do the big,
extreme things. To honor Kelly. But as I’ve gotten older, now I just do the things I want to do. The things that I think I’ll legitimately enjoy but still push me out of my comfort zone. I try my best to pick my moments. If I’ve learned anything from Kelly it’s that life comes and goes too fast. People are so casual with their time, especially when you consider that it can all be gone in a second.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“And I’m not saying that going buck wild is the
only way to live. I couldn’t sustain that type of life. Reading books and swinging on the porch is living, too. There’s definitely a balance to be had. I just think that getting out of our comfort zone every so often is when the magic starts to happen.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Technically, I went to bed at 10 pm, but in girl-with-a-Kindle time, it was actually closer to 2 am, which made this wake-up call much worse than he probably imagined.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“You started this whole thing. I'm just giving it a better ending.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“One thing I've learned through all of this, Olive, is that people don't fill up on love. There's no brim on the cup. Love overflows. It grows and bubbles over and over. I used to believe there was something I would be trading to let another man into my life. That I would have to give away a part of my heart that belonged to somebody else. And then I met Russ, and I realized that a person doesn't reach the capacity for love. Love just is.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“One day, when all the stars align for you, maybe you’ll date someone. Maybe you’ll get married. And I sure as hell hope that guy helps you shoulder a few of your burdens. Not because he doesn’t think you’re capable. Not because he wants to control you. But because he loves you.” He bent down closer, the heat from his words breathing life into my ear. “And I hope you let him.”
― Cindy Steel, The One with the Kiss Cam

“He was my wings, and I was his nest.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Is your name Google? Because you’ve got everything I’ve been searching for.”
― Cindy Steel, Double or Nothing

“You can’t be trusted. You drink Coke from a can.”
― Cindy Steel, The One with the Kiss Cam

“Well, shoot. Looks like they gave me way too much food for just one person.”
― Cindy Steel, The One with the Kiss Cam

“The kind of love that had seen a houseful of children”
― Cindy Steel, Stranded Ranch

“I tried to think of one word good enough to describe Tessa, but it was impossible. There wasn’t just one word. She was a feeling. She was all the words together. Magnetic. Radiant. Funny. Beautiful. She was storm clouds and rain and the best summer day. She was pink toenail polish and a ponytail. She was cutoff shorts and a teasing eyebrow. A porch swing after a long day. A large Pepsi, not diet. She was soft and prickly. Salty and Sweet. The best combo. She was perfect. No. That word was too sterile. …she was magnificent.”
― Cindy Steel, Double or Nothing

“Technically”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Hope and fear like to think they can occupy the same space, but there is only room for one. It's up to you to decide.”
― Cindy Steel

“How could I be one thing to somebody, and something so completely different to another?”
― Cindy Steel, That Fine Line

“Why was he as cool as a cucumber while I was a neurotic rodent?”
― Cindy Steel, Stranded Ranch

“I would agree and shake it off. I would be Taylor bloody Swift.”
― Cindy Steel, A Christmas Spark

“She was definitely getting sick of me bringing up anything from our past, but when her embarrassed smile lit her face, I may as well have won the lottery.”
― Cindy Steel, Double or Nothing

“If I’m fifty pounds heavier and in love with you by the end of summer, Jailbait, you’re gonna be in big trouble.”
― Cindy Steel, Double or Nothing

“And just so we’re clear. I still like her a lot better than you, and if you hurt that little girl, there are a thousand places on my ranch I can bury a body that not a soul will ever know about.”
― Cindy Steel, Double or Nothing

“Kiss Cam, Heard about the tires. I was once told there wasn’t much a DP couldn’t fix. PS. I made sure it fell.”
― Cindy Steel, The One with the Kiss Cam