Lauren Layne > Quotes

“I want her. But more than that, I want her to want me.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“It’s because I fell in love with this incredible girl my freshman year. Only I didn’t know how to be in love, so I did the only thing I could to keep her close. I became her friend. I became her best friend, and buried all of my own feelings so deep that I didn’t even recognize them, because her feelings were all that mattered, and she wanted this other guy.”
― lauren Layne, Blurred Lines

“No matter where I look, my walls are crumbling, and this damned girl keeps presenting me with the most dangerous element of all.
Hope.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go.”
― Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

“Ask me what else I remember."
She started to run away, but his hand touched her arm.
"Ask me," he commanded.
Emma shook her head feeling both terrified and the most alive she'd felt in years.
He waited patiently until her eyes met his. "I remember us, Emma.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“I fell in love with a boy—but it took me ten years to realize the boy never grew into a man.”
― Lauren Layne, Just One Night

“Instead of the carefree, find-myself summer I envisioned, I’ll be spending the next three months with my own life-sized Ken doll.”
― Lauren Layne, Isn't She Lovely

“Michael, listen. I get it. Nobody’s ever loved you first. You’re tired of being second choice. Or nobody’s choice. I get it. Because nobody ever loved me first, either. But I’ve been thinking about this, and Michael…I don’t think it’s about who loves you first. It’s about who loves you best. And that’s me.”
… “I love you best. More than I love anyone. More than you’ve ever been loved.”
― Lauren Layne, Crushed

“Love is not a game, ladies. Treat it like one, and you’re bound to lose. Everyone talks about the rewards of finding that one person. Nobody warns you about the pain of losing him.”
― Lauren Layne, After the Kiss

“Olivia hasn’t just taught me how to love. She’s done something much bigger. She’s taught me how to live.
And I don’t want to do it without her.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“You want to know what I remember," he said quietly, his fingers fiddling with his cuffs as he rolled the sleeves up to his elbow, his eyes locked on the view before them.
She nodded.
He shoved his hands into his pockets and dipped his head just slightly, glancing at the floor before lifting it and staring out at the night sky.
"I remember everything.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“She wasn't blindly waiting for some fairy tale; she was just smart enough to believe that she deserved it.”
― Lauren Layne, Walk of Shame

“You hurt me, I want to say. You’re my best friend. The one who’s supposed to tell me I’d be the best boyfriend in the world and that any girl would be lucky to have me, not the one who laughs outright at the thought that I might need someone to love.”
― Lauren Layne, Blurred Lines

“And here’s what you don’t learn in Film 101…in real life? The meet-cute isn’t the least bit cute. It’s more like a meet-awkward. Sometimes even a meet-shoot-me-now.”
― Lauren Layne, Isn't She Lovely

“She makes me forget to breathe. She makes me forget everything.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“I’m not proud of myself, Olivia. Not even a little bit. Do I wish I’d never let you go? Obviously. Do I wish I’d come to my senses sooner? Of course. And maybe if it had taken me only a day or two to clear my head, then yeah, I would have called. But when you fuck up as badly as I fucked up, for that long, you don’t call. You don’t text. You don’t email. You go to your girl and beg.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“Real love—the kind that matters—is giving your heart to someone even after he tries to hand it back.”
― Lauren Layne, After the Kiss

“I do a squat to demonstrate. Generally I do squats with weight – lots of it – but since the most physical exercise Chloe seems accustomed to is running her mouth. I figure I’d better start at the beginning. The very beginning.
“Okay?” I say, doing another since she didn’t mimic my motion the second time.
She watches my movement in the mirror. “One more time,” she says.
I comply, and then mutter a string of curses because Chloe Bellamy has just reached out in the middle of a busy gym and patted my ass.
“Very nice,” she says, sounding surprised.
“Chloe!”
She shrugs. “You just got so upset when I was ogling that other guy instead of you, so I wanted to make you feel good.”
― Lauren Layne, Crushed

“Chemistry is like anything in life. The more you look for it, the harder it is to find.”
― Lauren Layne, Blurred Lines

“You made me whole. You took a wretched, broken soul and showed him how to take his life back.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“In no ecosystem should we even be acknowledging each other’s existence.”
― Lauren Layne, Isn't She Lovely

“You’re not fine, Paul,” he replies. “You can barely walk. You don’t leave this house unless forced to. All you do is read and mope—”
“Brood. I prefer brood. More manly than mope!”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“I resign myself to apologizing to the miniature goth monster.”
― Lauren Layne, Isn't She Lovely

“You’re one messed-up piece of work.”
“Yeah, but you’re starting to worry that you might like me,” I say confidently. “Considering I also give you a boner, shit’s gonna get reaaaaal complicated here in the next few months.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“There's nothing rational about love.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“I have a serious lady boner for the guy I’m supposed to work for.”
― Lauren Layne, Broken

“I pop another piece of donut in my mouth and smile. “It’s fine. I won’t tell a soul you checked me out.”
“I wasn’t—” He clears his throat. “Forget it. You’re ridiculous.”
I’m grinning outright now, because that’s two you’re ridiculouses this morning, and when he takes to repeating himself, I know I’ve successfully gotten under his skin.
Georgie, one; Andrew Mulroney, Esquire, zero.”
― Lauren Layne, Walk of Shame

“If you really, truly can’t warn them about what’s coming, the best you can do is situate yourself in their life to support them when the pain comes. And you should probably prepare yourself.”
― Lauren Layne, Walk of Shame

“I can’t shake the feeling that Parker just told me goodbye. Not goodbye to our friendship, because that will always be there in some capacity. But goodbye to the way we used to be. The way we could have been.”
― Lauren Layne, Blurred Lines

“I don’t want the guy who wanted the swan. I want the guy who wanted the duckling.”
A long moment of silence passes.
Then: “Chloe, I don’t know what that means.”
She stomps her foot. “Seriously? Do mothers not read nursery rhymes to their sons?”
― Lauren Layne, Crushed