Kortney Keisel > Quotes

“Sometimes, life comes from behind and scares you so badly that it takes your breath away.... But don't worry. You will breathe again.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“Grief sticks with you—it changes and shifts as you grow, but it never leaves you.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“I want to marry you, Emree Dutson, for all the right reasons. Images of you consume my everyday life. You are my future, every special moment I don’t want to forget, and all my dreams coming true. You’re not just a random girl at the Morreck Inn, the Promenade Director, or a working-class woman in gray. You’re my everything, and I don’t want to live another day without you.” He held the ring out in front of her. “Please say that you’ll marry me and be my forever.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Rejected King

“How can I have a broken heart over someone that’s never been mine?”
― Kortney Keisel, Complete

“My stomach ties up in knots every time I get together with my family. I feel anxious that I’m not going to fit in the way they want me to. Or that I’m just the disappointing misfit they all have to tolerate. I’m worried I won’t know what to say or that every exchange will be forced and awkward. I’m stressed that I won’t be able to leave when I want to. I literally stew over it for hours beforehand.”
― Kortney Keisel, Summer Ever After

“You're much stronger than I ever was, and you'll be okay”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“He was never meant to be hers. He was meant to be King. Meant to be Seran's. That had already be dicided”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“Some heartbreaks are worth it”
― Kortney Keisel, The Forgotten Queen

“I’ll take anything I can get from you, even if it’s only a broken heart.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“It’s the type of love that grows with time, deepens with experience, and changes with life.”
― Kortney Keisel, One Foggy Christmas

“this part of the Christmas experience?” I gesture to Blitzen’s head. “A reindeer in my crotch?”
― Kortney Keisel, Later On We'll Conspire

“This morning, I found the CD on the front seat of my golf cart with a note that said, Hopefully, now I won’t have to keep playing this song for you, with a smiley face.  He BOUGHT me the CD!”
― Kortney Keisel, Summer Ever After

“Love happens when you’re brave enough to let someone see your pain, and we’re past bravery—bearing our whole souls for the other to see. ”
― Kortney Keisel, One Foggy Christmas

“This was not a fairytale.
This was a nightmare”
― Kortney Keisel, The Forgotten Queen

“If Brooke likes a smooth jaw, what the heck have I been doing the last five years with stubble on my face?”
― Kortney Keisel, Complete

“A six-foot-three professional golfer with dark curls, blue eyes, and a charming smile isn’t your type?”
― Kortney Keisel, Summer Ever After

“You’re a handful, Mykaleen Adler, but I kind of like that about you. I like how at any given moment of the day, I don’t know what you’ll do or say next. You’re funny, and sometimes you don’t even try—it’s just natural. You don’t pretend to be something you’re not. You’re unapologetically yourself in the best way. I like that you’re brave and bold and daring. And,” he paused, “I like how you don’t need me to rescue you, but you’ll let me anyway.” He shook his head. “I know you’re way out of my league and that you deserve someone better than me, but I can’t help it. I love you. I love your craziness, and your goodness, and your strength.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Stolen Princess

“And by the way,” she paused for a moment, eyebrows raised, taunting
him, “we were both wrong. I don’t need a pretty, blue dress to get you to
kiss me. Just some eye contact will do.” She pursed her lips together in the
most adorable way and then ran off into the trees.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Promised Prince

“She’d been through a lot, but her past didn’t define her. She wasn’t broken. She’d gotten stronger, learned how to fight for the life she wanted. Her story hadn’t ended in Albion the day she’d been shot. The quicksand of life hadn’t dragged her down. She could write her own ending, and she could do it with Marx.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Forgotten Queen

“That’s what I like about life. No matter how bad things are, there are always more chances to start again.”
― Kortney Keisel, Summer Ever After

“Emree bit her swollen lip, fighting to keep her own passion at bay. He waved his hand out in front of him, gesturing to her. “Would you stop that!”
Confusion creased her brow. “What?”
“Stop biting your lip and looking so attractive. I’m trying to be a
gentleman.”
She rolled her eyes.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Rejected King

“You’re showing me with a diagram?” He pauses, looking up at me. “I use diagrams with my team at work. The visual helps you see where you’re at and where you need to go so you can move forward to success.”
― Kortney Keisel, Compared

“I don’t know if I should answer this. Everything I say seems to irritate you.”
― Kortney Keisel, Compared

“Because what’s the point of suffering, if a person doesn’t learn anything from it?”
― Kortney Keisel, The Stolen Princess

“I have no idea why Nash manhandling that heavy ladder with one hand is so dang attractive, but it is.”
― Kortney Keisel, One Foggy Christmas

“She had no one else, but she didn’t need anyone else as long as she had Drake Vestry.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Stolen Princess

“That was the root of the problem. Sydria didn’t care about Marx. Not in the way he had begun to care about her.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Forgotten Queen

“She would miss him.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Forgotten Queen

“I was broken, but you didn’t try to fix me—you gave me room to fix myself. You taught me to want more out of life, believe in myself, trust my instincts, and not settle for what everyone else said I had to be. You didn’t set me free. You broke down the walls so I could free myself, and I love you for that.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Forgotten Queen

“You were just a dream girl
then, but now you’re what my dreams are made of.”
― Kortney Keisel, The Rejected King