Jenny Proctor > Quotes

“love a woman who has her priorities in order. Tacos first, then diamonds.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Best Friend

“Seven thousand, one hundred, and forty-five days" he whispers into my throat, his lips close to my ear. I lean back, catching his eye. "What's that?" "That's how many days I've loved you.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Best Friend

“I ended up moving one of the armchairs in my living room up against the wall so I could sit and read and still be close enough to hear her.”
― Jenny Proctor, Absolutely Not in Love

“There are never any guarantees, Kate. Not in life, certainly not in love.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Best Friend

“I fit in anywhere, because I belong no where.”
― Jenny Proctor, Love in Bloom

“Nah, I knew it was you. Nate texted and asked if I wanted to let you in.” “Wait, you could have said no?” Brody asks. “Rude.” “Brilliant,” Perry says. “I’d love to be able to screen people before they make it to my porch.” “But then you’d just say no to everyone,” Lennox says. Perry smiles. “Exactly.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss a Movie Star

“So. Should I be offended you threw my brother’s face behind your couch?” I wince. “I really hoped you didn’t see that.” “I mean, at least you tossed an ambulance back there to keep him company. The EMTS can dress his wounds if anything happened to his very pretty face.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss

“I’m steady. I’m focused. No one controls me but me.”
― Jenny Proctor, Absolutely Not in Love

“Tacos first, then diamonds”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Best Friend

“Kiss me,” she repeats. “If you want them to know you’re spoken for, then show them you belong to me.”
― Jenny Proctor, Romancing the Grump

“If people talk, they talk. They’re just words. Lucky for us, we get to decide what words mean something and what words don’t.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss a Hawthorne Brother Complete Series: A Sweet Romantic Comedy Boxed Set

“Chicks are baby birds,” Mushroom said, not even lifting his eyes from his food. “Not women.”
― Jenny Proctor, Love Redesigned

“One: Outrun. Body slam. Slip lead. Grunt and beat my chest in victory. Two: … … … I’ve got nothing. I’m doing this thing WWE style or I’m not doing it at all.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss

“Perry Hawthorne, I think you’re flirting with me.” He lets me go and picks up my overnight bag, heading for the door. “You started it,” he calls over his shoulder. I gasp. “How did I start it?” He pauses and turns, the full force of his smile slamming into me like a truck. “You put on that dress.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss

“I thought about you every day, Kate,” he says softly into my hair. “I never stopped thinking about you.”
― Jenny Proctor

“She dislikes me just as much as I dislike her. The fact that I keep threatening to turn her into pork chops might have something to do with it.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss

“there’s something magical about finding exactly what makes me tick and embracing it. I don’t have to be what anyone else believes I should be. It only matters what I want to be.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss a Hawthorne Brother Complete Series: A Sweet Romantic Comedy Boxed Set

“Not that I’m assuming you aren’t dating. You totally could be. Just because my social life is nonexistent doesn’t mean that’s true for everyone here. You probably are dating. I mean, look at you. Who wouldn’t want—you know what? I’m going to stop talking now.” “You sure? You don’t want to add anything else? Because this is pretty entertaining for me.”
― Jenny Proctor, Once Upon a Boyband

“We sacrifice for each other, sure. But we don’t sacrifice who we are.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss a Hawthorne Brother Complete Series: A Sweet Romantic Comedy Boxed Set

“Pig, one. Perry, zero.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss

“Petunias don’t really have main character energy either. They’re incredible flowers. Easy to grow and a great complement to other plants since they come in so many colors. But they’re never going to be the showstopper. The main feature. They’re a sidekick. Just like me.”
― Jenny Proctor, Petals and Plot Twists

“If there was work to be done, we helped. In hindsight, I realize how much more complicated we probably made things, but I’ll never regret the learning I did beside my father.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss a Hawthorne Brother Complete Series: A Sweet Romantic Comedy Boxed Set

“I once drove three states over to pick up Tatum’s favorite ice cream,” Lennox says. Perry takes a swig of his beer. “I spent half my savings restoring a Steinway piano because Lila has always wanted one.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss a Movie Star

“Seven thousand, one hundred, and forty-five days,” he whispers into my throat, his lips close to my ear. I lean back, catching his eye. “What’s that?” “That’s how many days I’ve loved you.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Best Friend

“watching him shovel homemade French onion dip into his mouth with a carrot stick.”
― Jenny Proctor, Romancing the Grump

“Is he trying to unravel me? Because he is absolutely unraveling me.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Best Friend

“I get the sense that she’s pretty introverted.”
― Jenny Proctor, Love Unexpected

“Refusing to do those things won’t bring her back. All it does is make your life small.”
― Jenny Proctor, One More Made Up Love Song

“He totally just looked up here. Also significant: Nathan is a defender. That kind of hotshot scoring move isn’t exactly his M.O.” “Which means what?” She gives me a pointed look. “Which means I think he was trying to impress someone.”
― Jenny Proctor, Romancing the Grump

“True compassion is always welcome. Pity, or someone making my pain about them, is not.”
― Jenny Proctor, How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss