Elizabeth Eulberg > Quotes

“It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.
It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

“And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“And Nate? You kiss like a slobbering dog, you have bad breath, and you wouldn't know how to punch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals. Happy Thanksgiving, Jackass.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we’re alone. When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“This entire time I've been thinking about where my home was. At first it was California, then Wisconsin. But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can just be you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“We’ve been focusing so much on getting there that we haven’t been enjoying the ride”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow

“On a scale from one to ten, how much of a pain was I after my injury?
And please be honest.

Do you think I would hold back on you?

Unfortunately, no.

On a scale from one to ten? Thirteen.

Fair enough.

Now I have a question for you.
On a scale from one to ten, how annoyed were you that I was going to the dance with someone else?

Infinity.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“I wondered if it would've been too subtle to wear a T-shirt that said thank you for your interest, but I am no longer dating.
I knew Todd, wasn't a huge fan of reading, but he did like to stare at my shirts.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“I would, for once, focus on me”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.

Best friends.

And what's better than falling in love with your best friend?

Nothing.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“There was only one thing I could do to ease the pain. I turned to the only four guys who'd never let me down. The only four guys who'd never broken my heart, who'd never disappointed me.
John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Anybody who has ever clung to a song like a musical life raft will understand. Or put on a song to bring out an emotion or a memory. Or had a soundtrack playing in their head to drown out a conversation or a scene.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“I tried to remember what Rita had said about being a bigger person. I could either calmly tell him that he was mistaken or let him have it. I could be the bigger person or I could be like any normal sixteen-year-old.
Like there really was a choice.
"First off, you ever call me a babe again and no medical team on earth will be able to tell that you were once a guy."
I was only sixteen after all.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“You've got to hide your love away. You can't just hide your feelings. You have to destroy them. Kill them before they kill you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“If I only had one goal, it would be to make her laugh loudly every day.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can be just you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow

“He was a guy. A guy guy. As far as I was concerned, he probably had the dead bodies of small children and puppies hidden in his locker.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“Sometimes friends have to suffer for their friends' happiness.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

“I'll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January first. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change. Or make a fresh start.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“Georgie took out her phone. 'I want to take a picture of you two.' She held up her phone and motioned for us to get together.
Darcy and I lined up against the railing. 'No, I need you closer together to get you both in the photo,' she instructed.
I had taken countless pictures on the waterfront and I knew that if you were getting the skyline in the background, you didn't need to be that close.
Darcy put his arm around my shoulder and we leaned in. I slipped my arm around his waist and I noticed how easily I fit into the little nook on his side.
'Oh, hold on, I'm having problems.' Georgie played with her phone for a few moments while we just stood there in our posed embrace.
'Georgie...'
She looked up at her brother and blushed. 'Um, I think it works now.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

“I don't want to ruin our friendship and what we have but I cannot for another minute stand in front of you without you knowing exactly how I feel. Because I can't see past you. You are everything to me.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow

“sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even worse.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

“I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
this place
And to you”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow

“I know, but it's just one night and I really think it's silly to spend thousands of dollars on a dress you only wear once.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

“I am not complete without you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club

“Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice