Angela N. Blount > Quotes

“I didn't just love him…I needed him. Not in some desperate "you complete me" sort of way. No, Vincent didn’t make me whole. He improved me. Something about him—something I didn't understand—had a way of amplifying the good in my nature while muting the bad. He was a catalyst for my soul. I didn't need him in order to exist...I needed him in order to be a better me.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“I already knew our “ever after” wouldn't always be happy or even comfortable―and clearly it couldn't be expected to go according to plan. Still, it was ours. And we were both determined enough to see it through to “the end.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“I know you can take care of yourself," he said, with absolute certainty. His vivid eyes probed hers. With the same underlying resolve, he lifted a hand and brushed her cheek with his fingertips. "I just don't think... you shouldn't have to.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t trade this path I’m on for the whole solar system, for that matter. If I’ve learned anything these last several months, it’s that sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“At least you earned your belief in something...Most people around here just say they believe whatever their family believes. They don't bother thinking for themselves...And the less they know, the louder they believe it.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don't really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally... I suppose it's passion combined with the commitment to value someone else completely above oneself.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Don't expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s grown on her and she actually really likes him. Technically, I’m not supposed to find that appealing. But maybe real life is a lot more cliché than anyone wants to admit. Or maybe there’s just a fine, subjective line between the cliché and the poetic.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“I didn't actually know what regret tasted like—but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“Look, I don't know what it's like to be you...and I'm not going to pretend we didn't grow up in different worlds." Angie leveled her face closer to Vince's ear. "But I do know what it's like to be depressed. ... I remember how it was, feeling like you're standing on the outside, watching yourself--wondering why you feel the way you do. Like there's something heavy and horrible sitting on your shoulders, coloring the way you see things. I remember wondering why I couldn't snap myself out of it." The recollection poured to of her so easily, she didn't have to think about it. "I know what it's like to just want to feel normal, never mind happy.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“If she couldn't manage to be extraordinary by nature, she reasoned the next best thing would be to attempt something extraordinary.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Well-meaning people are sometimes the most dangerous.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“For as long as she could remember, Angie had been slightly above-average--from her height and physical strength to her grades, intuition, and artistic capacity. She was athletic, but lacked the innate prowess of a competitive athlete. She was bright, but not a genius. Talented, but not elite. Good, but not best.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Something wrong?"
"No," Vince said quickly, forming a faint smile before seeming to reconsider. "Well, my gum lost its flavor. But I think I'll recover.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“She'd decided that if she was going to spend several days in close quarters with this guy, she ought to go out of her way to make sure he didn't get too attached to her. What better way to prevent that than by being herself?”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“I've always felt like I have to put on different masks for people--be who they want or need me to be. With you, I don't have to think about it. I just... am. And somehow, you like me anyway.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“To her, "above-average" had become only a small, yet frustrating step up from the mundane. Mediocrity with benefits.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“Maybe just a case of one person's "normal" being another person's Twilight Zone.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip