Breanne Randall > Quotes

“Sometimes I think if I let myself feel, really feel, I’ll never be able to climb my way back out. I can’t stuff it all back in.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“I don’t think pain is a competition,” her aunt answered without hesitation. “Somebody else’s ten might be your six. You can’t compare heartbreak. No matter what, it’s valid. And that’s all that matters. You’re allowed to feel,”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Death doesn’t stop you from loving. It makes the love more important.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Time ceases to exist for you in bookstores, and I am not sitting by for three hours while you get hot over books you have no intention of buying.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Sadie so often walked the line between who people expected her to be and who she really was, the lines blurred until sometimes she forgot who she actually wanted to be. But the townsfolk had expectations. And she liked to exceed those as often as possible.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Everything is fine. It’ll be fine, Sadie told herself again. Sadie hated that word fine. It was a Band-Aid, a sugar-coated pill to mask the bitterness beneath. Fine was what you used when it was anything but. But fine was what she had to be because if it wasn’t, everything would unravel.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Hold on to hope no matter the cost, because as long as there’s hope, everything else is just the unfortunate side effects of heartbreak and magic.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“You know who you are. Never let anyone or anything mold you into something different. Don’t let those idiots tell you what to do or how to live your life.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“They say that in a relationship there’s always the lover and the loved. But I don’t think that’s right. I think it changes. Sometimes you’re the one who loves more, and other times you’re the one who needs to be loved. That’s what a relationship is. Bracing the other person when they need it. Love is knowing you have open arms to fall back into.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Looking at him was like stretching your limbs after a long nap.

The first heartbreak that had sparked her curse to life.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“It was the satisfying crunch of a sharp knife cutting through ripe watermelon. It was green citronella spirals burning down and sunscreen squirting hot out of the tube. It was banana pancakes on repeat and the tang of river silt clinging to tanned skin. It was summer. And freedom. And youth. And heartbreak so hot it cauterized.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Some people needed flowers and pretty words. Sadie needed truth and kept promises.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“My dad says that the thing about the past is that when there’s pain, that’s all you remember. But when there’s joy, even if it’s a little bit, you forget all the shitty things that went along with it.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“When your heart is split in two, you can’t be true to either piece.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“there’s a difference between being happy and being fulfilled. Happiness you feel in your skin. Fulfillment you feel in your bones.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“I spent a decade punishing myself. Living in that misery as my own form of penance. And it didn't do a damn bit of good. It took me another decade to start forgiving myself. To accept that the stupid indiscretions of youth, despite their consequences, didn't have to define me anymore. My misery served no purpose. It didn't make me feel better. It didn't bring me closer to you. And I knew that if I met you as I was, I'd be ashamed. So, I went on a quest to become someone you'd be proud to call your mother.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“you’re going to need to ask yourself if you’re content with just being happy or if you want to be fulfilled.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Sadie had learned the rules of Revelare magic while growing up at her grandmother’s feet, her grubby little toddler hands searching for earthworms as Gigi explained why mustard seed helped people talk about their feelings and how star anise could bond two people together. The sweet tang of tangerine rinds scented the air as her little fingernails were perpetually stained orange. And always, Gigi warned her how their creations would speak to them. If you were in love, things tended to turn out too sweet. If dinner was bland, you needed some adventure. And if you burned a dessert—well, something wicked this way comes. Sadie listened to those lessons among the bitter rutabagas and wild, climbing sweet peas, drinking in every word, and letting them take root in her heart. She grew up comfortable with the knowledge that she was strange, weaving the magic around her like ribbons on a maypole.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“She was shocked how the threat death could make you miss someone before they were even gone.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Magic wasn't always spells and curses and charms. Sometimes it was the comfortable silence of a good meal and smiling eyes that met across the room and spoke more than words.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“She had to fight for control. Everything in her life belonged in neat little rows and columns. There were no surprises—only managed expectations.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“I know I said you don't accept reality, and I meant it. But it's also kind of a compliment, you know? Like the way you see the world is so forceful that reality has to fall in line or get the shit kicked out of it. I wish I had some of that.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Sometimes she missed her aunts and uncles so much it felt like pieces of her were searching for little pieces of them.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“It was summer. And freedom. And youth. And heartbreak so hot it cauterized.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Some things you can change, but those you can't are best left well respected.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Gigi was her world. And her world was unraveling.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“Normalcy, that’s what she decided she needed. Some good old-fashioned deep cleaning.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“a small bowl and stir. 2. Add the cold butter in chunks and break it up with your fingers in the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. 3. Top the muffins with the remaining peaches and with a spoonful of the streusel topping. 4. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into one of the muffins comes out clean.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“all over the grass and lit it on fire. He never said another word about the yard again.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic

“You’re always afraid people are going to leave, so you do anything you can to make them stay.”
― Breanne Randall, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic