Liz Reinhardt > Quotes

“Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly.
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“Can I..." He stopped and his jaw flexed. "Can I kiss you?"
I didn't answer, and he didn't wait for me to. His hands caught me gently behind the neck and he pressed his mouth to mine, softly but firmly. Then he moved one arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nicely." I had to keep my pride.
He took both of my hands in his. "Brenna Blixen will you be my girlfriend, please." He held up one of my hands and kissed my knuckles smoothly. "Pretty please. With sugar on top.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I'll spend the rest of my life falling as far and deep and hard as my heart will let me go in love with this perfect, crazy girl who taught me to let go and hold on. I know in that minute I'll be Evan's fall guy until the day I die, and my future, for the first time in my life, is an always I can't wait to fall into.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I will never break your heart. I will never hurt you. I might fuck up, I might not be perfect, but I'll never hurt you, Evan. You have my word.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I'm in love. Twice. It's not a love that divides fifty-fifty. It's not a love that's split between good and bad, safe and dangerous, real and imaginary. It's all mixed up, confused, good, bad and ugly love times two, and it's all mine.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Slow Twitch

“Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.'" I did my best boy voice.
"Well, I will tell you that's a crappy imitation of my voice." He smiled so wide I could see his eyetooth from across the table. "But you've got to know you're totally hot, chipped nails and all." He burned beet red all the way to the roots of his hair. "Man, you get me to say some embarrassing stuff, Brenna." He rubbed his hand on the back of his neck.
"Hey, don't blame me when you feel moved to make strange declarations.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“That I love her, that I want her, that I'm never going anywhere, that she and I are going to last. That this is real. That it’s forever.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“What he doesn't realize is that I'm already standing at the bottom, waiting to catch him. And I never miss.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I'm powerless against a bad boy and his hot kisses.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“Dresses that are complicated," she says softly, the smile on her lips pure wicked fun, "are essential to teach girls that they shouldn't bother with guys who won't figure out how to take off a dress.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I'm winning a date with you. Granted, it's the frigging lamest date on earth, but I'm winning it anyway.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“You're the fall guy, Winch. You're the guy they come to when no one else will stand up and take their medicine. And they come to you because you never make them stand up and take it.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“Not exactly what I wanted, but you know what they say about getting what you want."
"That you should want what you have instead?" I guessed.
"No! That's ridiculous advice. Jesus, who told you that? Never mind, don't even answer that. Just forget you ever heard it. They, and by 'they' I am referring to those who know what the hell they're talking about, say that you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes..." He held out his hand for me to finish.
"You just might get what you need?"
He shucked me under the chin and gave me his best cocky smile. "There's hope for you yet."
He walked away from me with a determined swagger and didn't look back.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Junk Miles

“So I get ready to let go and free-fall in the scariest jump of my life. But she's with me. So I swallow my fear and do it.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“Sometimes is all we really have anyway, right? Nothing is always.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I could never hurt you as bad as you try to hurt yourself,”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“Whit looks like an angel when she sleeps. She's all sweet, full lips, long, curly eyelashes, and a tumble of sleek, dark hair against the pillow.
She also kicks like a mule, snores like a bear, sweats like a hog, and steals the covers like a fat, menacing caterpillar about to cocoon herself before her metamorphosis. - Deo”
― Liz Reinhardt Steph Campbell, Lengths

“Now my heart is desperate in my chest, like a bird crashing into a window over and over again, confused that it can't get to what it sees and wants, and willing to kill itself in the attempt to remedy that.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“It’s about how love can be so complicated and huge and beautiful, and how there’s enough of it for everyone we ever meet.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Slow Twitch

“Just you and me. That's all, Jake. I know it might not be perfect. I don't want or expect perfect. I just want you.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Slow Twitch

“You make me believe in a lot of things I never thought I would”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“I fell again, head over heels, uncontrollably and without a chance to grab hold before it swallowed me hard and whole.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Slow Twitch

“You’re deceptively good, Blix. Just the perfect amount of bitch to be sexy.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“You run away for freedom. You run away because you can’t be trapped by the people who love you but don’t understand you. You run away because you want to be missed, you want them to start a worried search party combing far and wide for any scrap of evidence that you’re going to be back, safe and sound. Running away is a way to play a dirty trick on the perfect fate that will suffocate you if you’re not careful.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Perfectly Unmatched

“Was she someone special?” I hoped it might be for a lot of reasons.
“Yeah, Bren. I proposed to her right after she let me feel her up in someone’s parent’s bathroom at a house party. It was magical.”
― Liz Reinhardt, Double Clutch

“I've loved one girl. That's you, Evan Lennox”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy

“How can I miss someone so badly when we're in the same room?”
― Liz Reinhardt, Fall Guy