Catherine Walsh > Quotes

“I can’t have a December Capricorn.” “It turned out okay for Jesus.” “The man was crucified, Molly!”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Just go for it. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. Whatever. You move on. You cut your hair short and buy a bunch of books you’re never going to read. C’est la vie.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“That’s one good thing about bad days,” I say, as her face falls. “They always end.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“I’m in love with you and I’m sorry it took me so long to figure it out. I’m sorry I wasted so many years trying to find someone else, when the only one I wanted was you.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Everyone else seemed to know their place in the world but me. Like they’d all been let in on some big secret. And no matter how many things I did right, everything always felt wrong.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“There'll be people who can help you. I can help you. But you have to ask for it. You have to try. And I'd rather you tried than stay miserable, Molly. No matter how scared you are.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“I’ve been searching for something my whole life, and nothing’s ever clicked. And I think it’s because I was looking for you.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“You always make the time when you want to.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“You're pretty good at relationship chats. For a boy, anyway."
"Yeah, well. It's always easier when it's about other people, isn't it?”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“You’re sick,” he says firmly. “Let me look after you. I’ll always look after you.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Women help women. I will help you quit. I’ll take you to a life coach. We’ll make some lists. I’ll teach you the violin.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Whatever she wants, I’ll give her. I realize that now. How I’ll never be able to say no to this person. How I’m completely at her mercy.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“I’m fine. Honestly, I'm so used to being alone now I don't know if I'll even like it when I find someone I do want to be with. I'm not sure I know how to bend like that anymore.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Mark doesn’t deserve you,” he interrupts. “And I don’t care if he’s found his soulmate or if he spends his weekend rescuing stray dogs. He hurt you, so I hate him. And I would very much like to punch him for breaking your heart. In fact, if anyone ever makes you think you are less than what you are, or that you don’t deserve everything that you reach for, I will make their lives as miserable as you want me to. Prank phone calls. Stones in their shoes. Whatever you ask me to do, I will do it. You are hardworking and passionate and kind and one day… one day you are going to find someone who lights you up even more than you already do. And they’ll be lucky to have you.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Don’t tell me I don’t know what this is. Don’t tell me I don’t know what I want.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“I spent that entire flight wondering if I was making a giant, expensive mistake, but any doubts I had vanished as soon as I stepped off the plane. I knew as soon as I did that Chicago was my city. And I was lucky that it was. There’s no predicting it sometimes, what calls to you and what doesn’t. But in the same way house-hunters can walk through a front door and know instantly whether or not the four walls are for them, I knew as I settled into my life here all those years ago that this was where I belonged.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“You weren’t completely off base. Not like I ever had a real relationship before.” “Just because they weren’t meant to last forever doesn’t mean they weren’t real.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“I’m just not used to this yet,” I admit. “I still feel sometimes like I’ll wake up and we’ll be on a plane. That none of it will have happened.” “It was always going to happen,” he murmurs. “But trust you to choose the most stressful three days ever to do it.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“I will make their lives as miserable as you want me to. Prank phone calls. Stones in their shoes. Whatever you ask me to do, I will do it.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Google career options for tired girls who still want to afford their nice apartment.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“I give most people money as a present. They expect it and they want it.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“It’s mistletoe, you idiot.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Should we set an alarm?” I whisper. “My family is the alarm.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“You know when people say that the anticipation of a kiss can be better than the actual event? Those people have never kissed Andrew Fitzpatrick.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Yes, they are. They know it, and you know it, and if someone says something and I’m not there, you call me. If someone side-eyes you, you call me. You call me, and no matter where you are or what time it is, I’ll pick up and I’ll come running. That’s the whole point of this.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“This is an adventure, right? This is either a fun little adventure or possibly the stupidest thing
I’ve done. And I once tried to wax my own eyebrows.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“Well, it’s too late now,” she says dryly. “Are you sleeping on the couch?” “We’re sharing a bed.” It takes a full twenty seconds for her to stop cackling.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance

“I woke up to snow. Proper snow. Not crappy melty snow. No. This was a big white fairy-tale blanket of it.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“Sometimes I like you a whole lot,” she says. “Sometimes you’re all I think about.”
― Catherine Walsh, Snowed In

“You're scared."
"So?" I ask. "There's nothing wrong with being scared."
"There's not," he agrees. "So long as you don't stay scared forever.”
― Catherine Walsh, Holiday Romance