Kandi Steiner > Quotes

“I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway. Maybe for the thrill, maybe to cure our curiosity, or maybe just to lie to ourselves a little longer.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Uncomplicate it. Don’t make excuses. Some of life’s biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don’t miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you’re too busy rereading the last one.”
― Kandi Steiner, Song Chaser

“Because that’s what life’s about. It’s about paddling out and fighting the waves until you find the perfect one to ride home on.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.”
― Kandi Steiner, Tag Chaser

“Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There’s always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths — and they were my only release.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I saw him first, but it didn’t matter. Because he saw her.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Sometimes we’re more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don’t deserve them, or that they aren’t real, that they’ll disappear quickly and easily and we’ll be left in the ruins.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Whatever you choose, make sure it makes you happy.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“It took too long for me to realize I’d dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I’d broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“That’s the thing about love,” he said, kissing my hair. “It doesn’t need to be reciprocated to be real.”
― Kandi Steiner, Blind Side

“I want that kind of love that leaves you breathless when it hits you, and makes you want to throw up at the thought of losing it. The kind that makes you so happy that it hurts at the same time, like it’s painful to think that out of all the people in the world, you somehow found the one meant for you.”
― Kandi Steiner, On the Way to You

“Another tip you picked up from my books?”
“Those things are like a treasure map. Just follow the tabs and highlights to find the pot of gold.”
― Kandi Steiner, Blind Side

“Ignorance is a blessing as much as it is a curse. You can’t crave what you don’t know exists.” The”
― Kandi Steiner, Weightless

“You don’t want to be someone’s muse, you want to be someone’s undoing. And let me tell you, Kitten… You’re mine.”
― Kandi Steiner, Blind Side

“I love when you do that,” he whispered.
“Do what?”
“Exist.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Wrong Game

“I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him — not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I wasn’t sorry the first time I kissed you, even when you weren’t mine, and I’m not sorry I kissed you the other night, even when I wasn’t yours. Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Sometimes, the darkness is where you find yourself.”
― Kandi Steiner, Weightless

“My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn’t really hers to give in return.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“No, it does matter. Because I’m getting married.” “No, you’re not.” “Yes, I am!” Jamie stood, jaw tight. “You’re not marrying anyone but me.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I don’t want to be just comfortable, Mom. I want a love that makes me everything but comfortable. If it doesn’t drive me mad, if it doesn’t break my heart at the thought of losing it, if it doesn’t push me to new places and force me to grow — what kind of love is it, really?”
― Kandi Steiner, Weightless

“But if the thought of losing him forever makes you lose your breath, if living without him seems impossible now, then don’t let him go. Don’t walk away so easily. There are no rules when it comes to life and love, and even if there were they would only exist to be broken. There’s no methodology, no equation, no right or wrong or guided path of light. Stop asking yourself what other people will think or what you should do and listen to your heart.”
― Kandi Steiner, Revelry

“You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he’d been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I knew from that moment on that all the fairy tale bullshit I was fed by Disney and everyone else was nonexistent. I stopped looking for it, got more realistic, and I’ve been fine. Until now,” I look up into Corbin’s eyes. “Until you.”
― Kandi Steiner, Tag Chaser

“And maybe that’s what love was, giving someone the power to shatter you and trusting that they wouldn’t.”
― Kandi Steiner, Revelry