Whitney Dineen > Quotes

“When I graduated from high school, Grandpa Jack had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I answered, “Happy.”
― Whitney Dineen, A Hate Like This

“Joke all you want, but at the end of the day, life is about who we love and how we love them”
― Whitney Dineen, A Hate Like This

“Every few minutes I look up from the screen and spot Moira. Happiness fills my body.”
― Whitney Dineen, A Hate Like This

“My job doesn’t define me. The people I love define me. And if Nan’s aneurysm taught me one thing, it’s that those people are getting older, and their lives are getting shorter. I don’t want to be a full day’s journey away from them. I want to make the most of our time together and enjoy the absolute crap out of them while I have the chance.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Sometimes things appear to be dark and hopeless, but if you can just change how you look at them, you’ll see the joy is right there.”
― Whitney Dineen, The Text God: Text and You Shall Receive ...

“not to bother me, but they were really starting to get worried. I assure my mom that I am well enough to keep her homemade chicken”
― Whitney Dineen, The Reinvention of Mimi Finnegan

“Okay, Jen, stop that. He’s got a girlfriend and you are not one of those women. Now, get yourself away from the incredible man you want to beg to marry you before you say or do anything dumber than you already have.”
― Whitney Dineen, The Text God: Text and You Shall Receive ...

“Whoever said a month’s paycheck was too much to spend on a wedding dress clearly never saw you in this one. I feel like a proud mother right now.” Jazz heaves”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“appointment with the East Side Yenta.” “Richard, you are one of, if not the most eligible bachelors in New York City. Why in the world do you need the help of some old Jewish matchmaker? You’re not even Jewish!” he added. “For God’s sake, Spencer, you don’t have to be Jewish to use a matchmaker.”
― Whitney Dineen, The Reinvention of Mimi Finnegan

“My head feels dangerously full, like gray matter could start leaking out of my ears at any moment.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Sane

“She just wanted to have someone to love and someone who would love her back. Was that too much to ask? Lila’s musings”
― Whitney Dineen, She Sins at Midnight

“Everyone’s crazy in their own way. What makes two people compatible is finding someone whose crazy complements yours and vice versa.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“while the going around was easy, the coming around could be a real bitch. Being”
― Whitney Dineen, She Sins at Midnight

“When you realize your happiness is your own to claim, you start to make the decisions that will lead you to it.”
― Whitney Dineen, The Move

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to reap; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather your stones together. That verse is so universally relatable. It’s the whole human journey wrapped up into one gigantic run-on sentence. I feel like I’ve lived it all in the last week, except for the last part. That’s why I’m going home. It’s time to gather my stones together.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Lila looked up to see Jilly standing in her bedroom. She was so lost in thought that she didn’t even hear her friend come into the house, let alone up the stairs. She answered, “You are never going to believe the kind of morning that I’ve just had.” And being that she couldn’t tell her best friend about her romance novel worries, she told her all about the scene at the country club the night before and about the goings on in the kitchen that morning.”
― Whitney Dineen, She Sins at Midnight

“all the while feeling like we’re living on the sun’s surface.”
― Whitney Dineen, Text in Show: It's a Dog Text Dog World ...

“The woman is like an onion. You pull back one layer and there’s a whole new layer of crazy just waiting to make you cry.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relativity Series

“So, I do what any independent adult male would do in this situation. What my mom tells me to.”
― Whitney Dineen, The Text God: Text and You Shall Receive ...

“Kitty Cat, life is about feeling. It’s about the ride. Do you want to be on a merry-go-round your whole life, just traveling in the same circle over and over again? Or do you want to risk it all and hit the roller coaster, where you’re going to feel all the highs and lows that come with the journey?”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“Snuggling into my lumpy pillow again, it occurs to me that I’m laying down. Then it occurs to me that the arm rest between us must have been lifted because I am in fact lying on Elliot’s lap and the hard pillow that I’m snuggling my face into isn’t actually a pillow at all. And the reason it keeps getting harder is because… hello! Elliot Fielding is not as immune to me as he would like us both to believe. Before I sit up, I purposefully put my hands under my cheek and cop a brazen feel. Then I push up and stare into the eyes of the man who has allowed me to sleep on him for the past two hours.”
― Whitney Dineen

“He raises his beer bottle and adds, “May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you.”
― Whitney Dineen, Seven Brides for Seven Mothers: Books 1-3

“For everything you hate, you have to like two things, or you’re gonna slide into the pit of despair, girl.”
― Whitney Dineen, A Hate Like This

“Women who refused to be cast in the shadows of history are the reason we have the degree of equality we have today. Those who hunt out the wealthiest mate they can, to bring forth new generations of privilege,”
― Whitney Dineen, The Move

“I shrug my shoulders. “Maybe because he won’t have the information for the next lunch he wants us to cater until then.”
― Whitney Dineen, Text Me on Tuesday: All is Fair in Love and Texting ...

“menopause. You’d think it was bad enough that women have to have periods every month for forty-five years. But no, we have to go through pregnancy and labor—stretching our lady business out to unnatural lengths, then when our hormones start drying up, we lose the hair on our heads only to grow mustaches on our faces,”
― Whitney Dineen, Text in Show: It's a Dog Text Dog World ...

“We sit silently offering each other our support. That’s when I realize a family is like a stew. We’re all just a bunch of ingredients, simple items on our own. Then we get thrown into the stewpot and start to blend together. Our edges soften as we mix with the other ingredients in such a way that it’s hard to recognize what we were before becoming part of the whole.”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal

“The mayor’s daughter, an accountant, and a hockey player come together to save a small town in Washington from the evil antagonist who is trying to ruin them.”
― Whitney Dineen, Fake-Off with Fate

“Nan is already there wearing black cropped pants and a satin”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Sane

“You made your choices and I’m going to make mine. That’s how life goes, right? We’re all responsible for our own happiness.”
― Whitney Dineen, The Move