Karyn Bosnak > Quotes

“When you are really in love, when it's the right guy, it's not this hard. Things fall into place; they work. If it's meant to be, it'll work itself out.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“To everyone who's ever second-guessed a decision they've made, our past makes us who we are. Have no regrets.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are. Don't maybe your decisions to death because you can't change them.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Just because someone came back for you is no reason to be with them. Just because someone loves you is no reason to love them back.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“I don't care that I'm taking a chance. I don't care that I may get my heart broken. If I don't at least give this a chance, I'll never be able to live with myself. I love this. I love this because it's funny. I love this because it's silly. I love him, I love him, I love him! And just like that...my heart goes boom.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Life is filled with pain and beauty. It's a journey, a learning experience. You've always been a girl who has had to learn by doing, not by watching and listening--don't change that. Don't change that now--you're too young.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“I'm bad at relationships--I'm not gonna lie. And maybe you and I would be a mistake, but maybe we wouldn't. All I know is that if we don't try, we'll never know.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“If you're going to remember anything from your past, then do so fondly because you can't change a thing about it.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“...He's a wonderful person and I'd fall head over heels in love with him if I haven't already, there's no doubt about it. And there's no doubt that he'd eventually leave me. There's no way anything between us would go somewhere. I'm done with flings. I want the next thing--the real thing.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“I don't have a list or anything. I just haven't met that person that I want to hold a boom box up for yet.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm not being pessimistic, and although I'd like to believe that a boom or we or us exists, I'm not sure I do anymore. Maybe I've been holding out for something that's unrealistic.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“There are the choices that we make and the consequences, that's all.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Life is funny; it really is.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“Wearing my scarlet dress and high heels, I walk down the street a proud woman. A woman flawed, but still, a woman who takes chances, a woman who has loved and been loved. To go out on a limb (or twenty -or forty or sixty, for that matter) is what life is about. It's about trying until you get it right. I'm okay with where I'm at right now. I still don't have a job, a loft, a husband, or kids - but I have me. My grandpa is right. I can maybe maybe myself to death or make peace with the past, with any mistakes I might have made, remember the good times and move forward.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“You know that excuse... it's not you it's me? I say that a lot, when I break up with someone, but I don't really mean it when I do. I'm not the reason my relationships end but neither are the women. It's not me and it's not them--it's that we never had a we. There was no us. It's hard to say what makes two people have that, because it's something you can't put into words. It's a feeling, I know it's only a movie, but I want the feeling that Lloyd had. He didn't just want Diane, he needed her, so he did everything in his power to get her back.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“My grandpa calls that the boom. He says it's different from love or lust; it's deeper. it's a feeling that hits you hard when you have a real connection with someone.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“...My grandpa has always told us that you know you're in love when your heart goes "boom." The way he explained this "boom" is that it's not the giddy feeling you get when you first meet someone; it's deeper than that. It's more of a low, bellowing boom that resonates in your body the moment you realize you need someone, you love someone. It's more a boooom than a boom! I have yet to feel it.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“I meant just because someone came back for you is no reason to be with them; just because someone loves you is no reason to love them back.”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“then a perfectly healthy woman”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“her bag, I apologize to Wade. “Sorry.” “No problem,” he says. “She must be freaked out by the Muppets.” “Yeah,” I nod. And she’s not the only one. Wade motions to the empty spot next to him on the couch, directly underneath”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“deal. To be honest, I was getting a bit self-conscious about”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“Almost sneezing is like almost having an orgasm. Sure it tickles getting there, but if you don't get the release you were hoping for at the end, then what's the point?”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady

“What are you looking for?” Wade asks, seeing me peer under his couch. “Huh?” I turn back to him. “Oh, uh…I’m just checking out the rest of the place.” I suddenly feel Eva rustle around in her bag. When I look down, she peeks out at me with sleepy eyes and then lazily glances over at Wade. When she sees the Muppets hanging on the wall behind him, she cocks her head,”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“Most of the shows I do are held at the local playhouses,” Wade explains as he reaches up to take an old man Muppet off the wall. He begins to play with it. “But the last one I did—my personal favorite—was held at a church not far from here. Called Equestrians for Christ, it was a modern-day reenactment of the crucifixion. Basically,”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“Delilah Darling. I’m twenty-nine years old, I’m single, and well…I’m”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“called Elisabeth Sterling Design (ESD for short), a company that designs and manufactures a popular line of”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“I’m aware of the trials and tribulations of Courtney Love. Wade was a clown? And now he’s a Muppeteer? It takes everything I have inside me not to run out the door. “Yeah, someone needs to make better clown makeup,” Wade continues, as he sashays over to the couch and plops down. “Because what’s out there right now is way too thick.” “Did you ever think about being that someone? Did you ever see this problem as an opportunity to make a little money?”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel

“There, that’s better. That should get him talking. But it doesn’t. As more time”
― Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady: A Novel