Tracy Ewens > Quotes

“It's sort of like books. Yeah, you know how you read certain books and at the last page you're filled with the story and you sort of don't want to leave the characters?”
― Tracy Ewens, Reserved

“The heart wants what the heart wants.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“it was better to be a quiet surprise than a loud letdown.”
― Tracy Ewens, Premiere

“My instructor has faith in me to save us both. I’m given that opportunity and I’m stronger as a result. Kind of beautiful, isn’t it?”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“It occurred to Meg that there were probably a lot of her mother’s friends she’d never met. “Naughty Book Club. They’ve known each other for a few years.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Meg considered her three big sisters, three different women united in a childhood of memories and the adult lives they’d fumbled through. She had spent her life trying to outrun and outperform each of their shadows, but she’d grown up on her adventures and returned home with clear vision.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“You are every woman you've ever taken on a great date and every silly joke you played on your brothers. You are the only man who dances our raw turkey around the kitchen on Thanksgiving. You are my sweet boy, my big guy, and the handsome man I am proud of every day. None of us are only our outside, Cade. Boy, things would be easier if we knew what we were getting from the cover, right?”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“Did you say naughty?” she asked. “Yes. They read steamy romance and then meet over drinks to discuss.” “Are you kidding me? Our mom?” “Let’s say she and her lady friends have an extensive knowledge of firefighters and all of their… equipment.” Anna chuckled. “Wow. That is a surprisingly clear visual, so thank you for that.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Something happens to a woman when her husband is unfaithful. Songs and poems are written about heartbreak and betrayal, but they only serve to flower up the ugly truth. The young girl, the one inside every grown woman, the one dancing around in her mother’s shoes, she dies. The wide-eyed innocent who looked up at the man she loved and professed her devotion, she leaves and the woman is never the same.”
― Tracy Ewens, Candidate

“That’s the rumor,”
― Tracy Ewens, Smooth

“She’d faced her fears and come out on the other side. A little damaged, true, but better and stronger for the experience.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Then I shower, meet some of my entitled friends for a morning of tennis. We retire to some bar or restaurant for food, booze, and loose women. Then—” Kate was fighting a smile, he could see it, so he finished strong. “We all usually get lucky because after all, we’re so good-looking and loaded. So that leads to dinner, dancing, a quick trip to the jewelry store to buy my soul mate a bauble, and then back to my place for an endless night of passion.”
― Tracy Ewens, Candidate

“Their story was nothing like a romantic movie despite the epic crowd scene. Theirs was a tale of clumsy beginnings, quick getaways, and right when she thought a scary ending was inevitable, he’d managed to swoop in and let her save him. They were all the genres rolled into one.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Sistine never understood why women didn't unite. Why some spent time tearing others down all in the name of male attention. If women spent less time in some invisible competition, they could run the world.”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“Let’s not launch into another round of how hot the not-so-new football coach is again, please.” “Excuse me,” a deep voice from behind Annabelle interrupted them. Cynda’s jaw all but fell to the table. Anna turned but already knew who was standing in the doorway. Of course the coach himself would be right there. That’s how reality worked.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“You have knowledge. You know what it is to be a crazy badass. There’s strength in that, the kind of courage that creates success, good or bad.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“Actors are resourceful,” he’d instructed. “They hone their craft until they can take any situation and turn it away from themselves and back to the story. They are sorcerers in disguise.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“She told herself Super Girl was still Super Girl even without the cape, and then the battle began.”
― Tracy Ewens, Candidate

“Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket?”
― Tracy Ewens, Taste

“She was the baby and the sister most likely being lectured when their mother assessed all four of them and scrunched her face. “Meg, honestly, did you even try brushing that rat’s nest?”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“It’s a trust thing and it builds my confidence. My instructor has faith in me to save us both. I’m given that opportunity and I’m stronger as a result. Kind of beautiful, isn’t it?”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“She once watched a documentary and learned that the brain was 2 percent of a human’s body weight, and it was a testament to the neck and the spinal cord that it managed to hold the whole thing upright.”
― Tracy Ewens, Vacancy

“If music be the food of love, play on,”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“With one glance, he knew neither of them could live without the other. They were pieces of a story that only worked if they were together.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves,”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Finish one sentence for me. When I'm with Sistine, she...”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“West was physically on set by nine o’clock Monday morning, but his heart was in San Francisco. He was beginning to think it was some cruel joke that he lived in the Tony Bennett Suite.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“He saw politics as a jumbled mess that accomplished little if anything at”
― Tracy Ewens, Candidate

“Not his circus, not his monkeys.”
― Tracy Ewens, Taste

“How can you allow young people to watch that kind of behavior? It’s outrageous!” “Gary, I’m sorry you feel that way. I respect your need to tell everyone else what to do with his or her life. Yes, yes, I hear you, and I’m sorry you’ll be wasting your time upsetting our patrons. Yes, I know . . . yes, a petition. That’s fine. Thank you for letting us know, and try, Gary, please try, to have a nice day.”
― Tracy Ewens, Premiere