B.K. Borison > Quotes

“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“I want to feel something when I connect with someone. I want sparks. The good kind, you know? I want to laugh and mean it. I want goose bumps. I want to wonder what my date is thinking about and hope it might be me. I want…I want the magic.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“I like that. Thinking that I’m worth paying attention to. Something ordinary made extraordinary by the person you’re sharing it with.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“And isn’t it silly, to love the way someone’s things look like next to yours? Little bits and pieces of a life lived in parallel.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“When the whole world tells you you’re silly for wanting the things you want, you start to believe them. You start to think you’re not worth it. That if the things you’re waiting for do exist, they’re not for someone like you.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“Leaning on other people doesn't make your achievements any less yours, La La. You can trust me to help you carry the load. You don't have to do all of this alone. I know you can take of yourself. You've been doing that as long as I've known you. But let me hold your hand while you do it, okay?”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“But what’s wrong with being a romantic? I can be a confident, independent woman and still want someone to hold my hand. To ask about my day. It’s a good thing to want pas-sion and excitement and care. Attention and affection. I don’t want to settle for anything less than that.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“People get too caught up in how things look instead of how things feel,”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“It’s hard to love someone without restraint. To give yourself over to the swell and pull of it without fear of what might happen. I think it’s only natural to hold a part of yourself back and protect what you can.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“Long-time listener, first-time caller,” he says over the line. There’s a reluctant grin in his voice. It twists his words up at the edges, just like his smile. “I was hoping you could give me some advice.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“Let it be known that telling a woman to relax has never once resulted in said relaxation.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“I'm allowed to want soft, special things.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“I don’t concern myself with the fragile egos of men.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“You better get used to having me around.” I sniffle. “Haunting me?” “No.” He smiles. “Loving you.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“It feels like every time I get my hopes up for something good, reality comes out swinging. I don’t know how to be a hopeful person anymore.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“Luka filled the empty places in my life slowly, carefully, with his easy smile and stupid jokes. He brought me back to myself. And it’s been that way ever since.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

“Every day isn’t a fairy tale. We’ve worked hard for our relationship. To build it. To maintain it. I’ve become so many versions of myself and so has he, but we’ve found a way to fall in love with one another over and over again. Every time.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“She's been waiting for you her entire life, and you've been searching for her just as long.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“It’s okay if it takes you some time to find it again. And it’s okay if you find it just to lose a bit of it here and there. That’s the beauty of it, yeah? It comes and goes. Not every day is a happy one and it shouldn’t be. It’s in the trying, I think.” I clear the cobwebs out of my throat. “Trying to be happy?” “No.” He shakes his head once. “That doesn’t work. Trying to be happy is like—it’s like telling a flower to bloom.” He crosses his ankles and drags his palm against his stubble. “You can’t make yourself be happy. But you can be open to it. You can trust yourself enough to feel it when you stumble on it.” I”
― B.K. Borison, In the Weeds

“Why are you giving these guys your time? Why are you settling for crumbs when you deserve the whole damn cake?”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“But there’s magic too. In between the hard work, there are perfect moments where everything lines up exactly right. What else is that, if not the universe telling me I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be? I’m right next to him, holding his hand.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“I'm thinking about her, about us, about this. About this tiny café across from her house and all the places we almost met. About the right time, the right place, the right moment. I'm thinking about the way her hand fits in mine, and the way my heart drums out a beat that matches her name. Lu-cie. Lu-cie. Lu-cie.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“For the hopeless romantics. And the reluctant ones too.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“Nah, Lucie.” In my dream, he brushes a kiss against my forehead. “I think you’re the magic.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“But that’s the thing about happiness, I guess. You can show whatever you want to the world and not feel a lick of it inside yourself.”
― B.K. Borison, In the Weeds

“I think books are sexy,” she says very seriously. “No one at school has quite lived up to Aragorn yet.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller

“I still feel like I don’t fit, but I’ve stopped trying to force myself into the spaces that aren’t made for me.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“SEASONS CHANGE AND SO DO WE”
― B.K. Borison, In the Weeds

“What a gift that is. To still wish and dream and want. To find the good. To wear it on your sleeve.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“You keep showing me pieces of yourself that I want to collect like seashells.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals