Emma Miller > Quotes

“There’s doubt inside him too. He’s got small fears and interactions like this show me just that. We both have a lot to learn. A lot to feel comfortable with, and grow around. I like the thought of growing together though. Learning with him instead of around him.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“Can’t a girl get some peace?” I ask. “You’re a woman. Of course, you can’t,” Bri says, and it makes me laugh. She’s years younger than me and she’s already figured it out. We all figured it out years and years before this that we weren’t going to be treated the same. “I just don’t understand why it has to be harder for women. In sports. In life.”

“Because we were set up for that our whole lives. Live in the shadows or die trying to step into the sun, and get burned even when you do. If you sleep around, you’re a slut. If you don’t, you’re a prude. If you don’t play sports you’re lazy, and if you study too much you’re a bore. If you don’t dress up for class you’re sloppy, but if you do, you’re doing too much. We can never win.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I hope that I can find the happiness that I choose. I hope that even small moments like this can bring joy to me and my mom. I see the hope in my mom. Hope that I’ve learned from her, that I won’t make her mistakes. I hope that one day I can be as resilient and strong as my mother. That I can accomplish”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to feel so out of control. I’m happy to feel that way if you’re the cause,”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“God has nothing to do with what I’m about to do to you, Sienna.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I feel Sienna everywhere. In my chest, in my head, and in my fucking dick at all times.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“What in the feminist bullshit is this? As if he wasn’t already hot. Now he’s respectful too?”
― Emma Miller, The List of Things

“Use your words, Sienna. Tell me what you want from me. Be good, I know you can".”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“We don’t really need half of the things we have or want though. We really don’t need anything but ourselves,”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“And for the first time since the night I found out, I cry about my parents and the fact that they’re splitting up. But I don’t cry for myself. I cry for my mom because she’s just like me. Because she’s probably hurting the way I would if I was losing someone I loved and thought loved me. Because I’ve been there in different ways. And she’s been in my shoes in different ways. Because my mom is my mom, yes, but my mom is also a little girl deep down, I just never took the time to notice.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I’d let you hurt me a million times if it meant I got to have you… Please, let me have you…”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I shouldn’t burden him with the fear that he’s like someone he’s never been.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I hope that I can find the happiness that I choose. I hope that even small moments like this can bring joy to me and my mom. I see the hope in my mom. Hope that I’ve learned from her, that I won’t make her mistakes. I hope that one day I can be as resilient and strong as my mother. That I can accomplish half of the shit she’s done at her age. With or without a partner by her side.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“You’re looking at me like I’m a project.” She explains, and I shake my head. “No, I’m trying to make sure you’re real, and that I didn’t dream you up,” I admit.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“What I do know is our parent’s mistakes are never our fault. The shit they put themselves through isn’t our fault. Your parents can say they stayed together for you, and they can blame you all you want but it’s not true because whether they did this when you were a kid or right now, the pain doesn’t hurt any less. It just feels different.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“You’re human. You can want things you don’t need. Sometimes the things we don’t have make us better. They save us from who we could have been.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“Can’t a girl get some peace?” I ask. “You’re a woman. Of course, you can’t,” Bri says, and it makes me laugh. She’s years younger than me and she’s already figured it out. We all figured it out years and years before this that we weren’t going to be treated the same. “I just don’t understand why it has to be harder for women. In sports. In life.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“That loving myself wasn’t something I had to prove to anyone, it was just something I needed to do.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“Call me the devil if it makes you feel better. I’d be happy to continue sinning if it’s with you, Bambi,”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“Don’t be rude. We’re on a date. I open the doors, you look pretty,”
― Emma Miller, The List of Things

“I thought you didn’t like to spell things out.” She’s speaking through a timid smile. One that makes me want to kiss her. “I’d spell it out in every single language if it made you feel sure,” I admit, my voice is soft.

“You only know one…” she challenges, and I shrug. “I’d learn them all if it made you realize how much I want you…”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“The way people treat you is a reflection of the way they see you, and the way you let them treat you is the way you see yourself.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I’ll always like my vibrator more than I’ll like you.”

“Honestly I like your vibrator more than I like me, and I like me a lot.”
― Emma Miller, The List of Things

“She’s not out of my system. She’s somehow wedged her perfect little body deeper into it. I’m totally screwed.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I’m a hopeless romantic in some ways, but not in the expected way. I love the romance, but hate how falsely it’s presented. Where is the heartbreak, and the hurt, and all the crying, and cheating, and breaking up? It’s hard to change my mind about stuff like this because it’s true, I’ve never experienced any of it, and it’s hard to imagine that I ever will.”
― Emma Miller, The List of Things

“What’s your name?”

“Whatever you want it to be.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“I’m mesmerized by the way she talks, the way she listens, the way she looks at everything, but especially the way she looks at me in a way I’ve never been looked at before.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us

“You extend your best qualities to everyone around you until there’s none left for you.”
― Emma Miller, The Pros and Cons of Us