Annabel Monaghan > Quotes

“You get a dog and you know two things - you're going to fall in love with it and it's going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That's the basic madness of dog ownership.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“I got home from the FBi that day, put on my pajamas got a pint of Chunky Monkey, and watched 'The Notebook'. Five times. Everyone left me alone. I suspect they were a little afraid of me.

I went up to my room and listened to Taylor Swift's 'White Horse' on replay, knowing she was the only person in the world who could relate.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“Sorry," he said, kissing me lightly once more and brushing my hair from my face. I'd never seen a less sorry person in my life.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“Her safety is my utmost concern as well..." John started.
"You have no idea," Mr Bennet said under his breath. John ignored him.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“You can’t just keep doing what you’re doing and wait for it to turn into something happy. You kind of have to look for the happy things along the way.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“Because that’s what life is—joy peppered by loss. It’s why you get a dog. And then you get another dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“I like the way he notices things. A noticer is a person who can never be entirely self-absorbed,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“But at this moment I'm feeling the effect of being thrown from a moving car, held at gunpoint, and tossed through a plate-glass window. You, incredibly attractive or not, might be the only thing that stands between my waking up in the morning and my being chopped up in my sleep. I am staying here, and so are you. And these fine silk pajamas are staying on. Now get in bed.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“If you own up to not being perfect, life gets easier.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“Life’s going to do what life’s going to do, Alice. You might as well have a dog.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“The stench that surrounded me suggested that the tarp over my face had been previously used either to transport fertiliser or as toilet paper.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“Mercifully, the murderers arrived just then.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“Have you ever felt like you’re disappearing?” he asks. “Like you’re sure one day you’re going to wake up and find that the truest parts of yourself have been replaced by someone else’s plans?”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don’t want to make room for the future.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“Because that's what life is - joy peppered by loss. It's why you get a dog. And then you get another dog. Madness repeating itself just to get another taste of joy.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“Amazing. He called me amazing. In front of his dad.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“When I’m quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things. I want a perfectly pared-down home, and I want to hang on to every scrap of the past. I want a break from my kids without missing a single minute of their lives. I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it. Maybe”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“This feels like wealth, I think. This is the thing you save up for. You live your whole life so that you can be surrounded by too many people in too small of a room and tell the story of how it all happened.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“You’re the architect of your own experience.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“The basic truth of parenting fills my heart: If your kids are okay, you don’t really have any problems. I will relish this feeling.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“And now I can never unknow the truest true thing - the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss. This is practically physics.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

“To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“MY GIRLFRIEND'S SMARTER THAN YOUR HONOR STUDENT.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“Love happens over breakfast.’ ” “It’s just something Cormack said when we were first married. Romance happens over dinner. The candlelight, the wine.” “Everyone looks a lot better than they usually do,” Cormack says and laughs. Reenie rolls her eyes. “Well, yes,” she says. “That’s the romance of it. But at breakfast everything’s just as it is, in the light of day. No one wears lipstick to breakfast. And this is where you talk about your day and the part of the roof that might leak this fall. You bring your real self to breakfast.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“It's like my karate teacher says - you are more alive when you are feeling pain than when you are so careful that you feel nothing.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit

“And second, that the best things come back. Sometimes it’s right after the commercial, sometimes it takes longer. But time and sunshine bring growth, and life unfolds just the way it’s supposed to.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

“it’s an exploration of whether the safety that comes with loving someone at arm’s length is worth giving up the joy of loving someone with your whole heart.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Same Time Next Summer

“For years I've gone to bed gazing up at the eternal question: WHAT IF THE HOCKEY POKEY IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT?”
― Annabel Monaghan