Annabeth Albert > Quotes

“You said you were done with long-distance relationships," he reminded Adrian.

"That was before I went and fell in love with you.”
― Annabeth Albert

“I can’t say that I know what you’ve gone through. But I do know what it’s like to believe you’re broken when really all you are is…you.”
― Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours

“No. Like a memory. I wanted to be the memory of your first kiss and I wanted to make it incredible for you and...never”
― Annabeth Albert, Status Update

“Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now.”
― Annabeth Albert, Baked Fresh

“Because loving you means maybe losing you, and I’m not sure I could deal with that”
― Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours

“Love is always a risk. One many people can’t take and one that seldom pays off.”
― Annabeth Albert, Save the Date

“You'd be okay with going straight to bed and sleeping?" Noah sounded skeptical, but Adrian was serious.

"Yeah. I didn't come back for sex, Noah. I came back for you.”
― Annabeth Albert, Status Update

“But you know... If you want to see if a kiss would cure me, I wouldn't stop you.”
― Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours

“It had been so long since he'd been tempted that he felt as dry as the Northern California landscape, one spark away from complete devastation.”
― Annabeth Albert, Beta Test

“A virgin SEAL—” “Shut up.” He shoved Pike’s shoulder. Pike neatly sidestepped his grip. “I’m just saying, you must be rarer than a fucking unicorn. I thought you guys got all the ass—of any gender—you wanted.” “Hus—”
― Annabeth Albert, Off Base

“He didn't want to be Tristan's friend; he wanted to be Tristan's everything.”
― Annabeth Albert, Beta Test

“I did not want to spend days on end in a car with someone who made no secret of not liking me, even though he got along with almost everyone else. Something about the two of us was like mixing Diet Coke and Mentos—guaranteed instant eruption”
― Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours

“I want to.” That was it. Choice. The idea hit him like a defibrillator
burst—spreading out from his chest in hot, sure waves that tore past the
indecision and stagnation of the last week. The roar in his head crackled,
then calmed, sanity returning like oxy gen to his starved Hulk brain. He
didn’t have to, but he was choosing to. And may be that was what was
missing from his life—choice. He hadn’t chosen to be gay. Hadn’t chosen
to come out to the world. Hadn’t chosen where he’d go to college—free
tuition from two professor parents made that a nondiscussion. Hadn’t
chosen to come here. Hadn’t chosen to stay. But this? He was choosing
this, and the freedom made his nerves jangle.”
― Annabeth Albert, Treble Maker

“You know, sometimes disappointing your parents is the only way to figure out who you were meant to be.”
― Annabeth Albert, Beta Test

“Guys like him didn’t get happily ever afters, at least not yet. He essentially still lived at home, worked a crap job, and was struggling through school at an age when most people were graduated and on with their lives. Maybe things would be different in a few years,”
― Annabeth Albert, Rough Terrain

“You speechless might be my new favorite thing.” Finn grinned wickedly right before he swallowed me deep, cheeks hollowing, eyes drifting closed.”
― Annabeth Albert, Featherbed

“I realized I wanted to be the thing that gave him comfort for real. Wanted to be a safe place for him.”
― Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours

“I said one night, and I’m not going to beg you for something you can’t give anyway. Take care. I mean that. Despite everything, I can’t bring myself to regret tonight, so you don’t get to beat yourself up over it either.”
― Annabeth Albert, Burn Zone

“He was always so ready to do battle on my behalf, but I would have gladly taken up a sword against his past.”
― Annabeth Albert, Danced Close

“I’m hardly that scary,” Gideon scoffed, not looking at all reassured. “And I can be casual. I own jeans.”
― Annabeth Albert, The Geek Who Saved Christmas

“Sometimes hoping hurt and rolling with the punches was the only way to avoid hitting the floor.”
― Annabeth Albert, The Geek Who Saved Christmas

“Whispering, Nick rubbed the back of his neck. He’d clearly come right from the base and was still in his uniform. And hello, army porn.”
― Annabeth Albert, Better Not Pout

“The world needed more Gideon. And maybe I did too.”
― Annabeth Albert, The Geek Who Saved Christmas

“I had waited years for Paul Frost to need something. A cup of sugar. A spare fan. An extra chair. He probably had me beat in the tool department, but I did have a drill I was rather fond of. And I would have let him use it. But this, this was even better. He needed something I was good at, and finally getting the chance to impress him with something other than my knack for forgetting the trash cans had me all bouncy.”
― Annabeth Albert, The Geek Who Saved Christmas

“He's the thing you can't quit.”
― Annabeth Albert, Beta Test

“all he had to do was be himself, and Adrian took care of the rest.”
― Annabeth Albert, Status Update

“Cody probably tossed away orgasms like Kleenex.”
― Annabeth Albert, Treble Maker

“His voice had been so sincere, but I still couldn’t let myself trust it. Love came with conditions. Requirements. Obligations. And love could be yanked away without warning. Love hurt…“Real love didn’t have conditions and limitations. People had failed me, let me down, hurt me.”
― Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours

“Lewis and my few other lovers hadn’t been worth leaping over—they wanted too much of me or not enough, but what if Todd was different? You know he is. That’s what scares you. If he was worth the fall, maybe it was time to sprout wings.”
― Annabeth Albert, Danced Close

“Somehow, I knew this wouldn’t be the last time I waited up for Gideon. He deserved someone watching out for him, someone to leave a light on, and if he’d let it be me, well, I liked that. It also terrified me. But not enough to dampen how much I wanted to be someone for him.”
― Annabeth Albert, The Geek Who Saved Christmas