Kate Canterbary > Quotes

“Bodies are extremely temporary and they’re the least interesting things about us. They carry us around while we’re on this earth and there’s nothing more I can ask from my body than that. I certainly wouldn’t spend any time worrying about the size or shape of anyone else’s body. Not when I could care about their heart and their mind instead.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Carrying bags full of books is my cardio.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“If I had known I’d have a hot architect balls deep inside of me before the end of the weekend, I’d have made time for a pedicure.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I am going to marry you so hard you won’t remember your maiden name. I’m going to love you and protect you, and I’m going to put up with your brothers and the violent citrus-throwing, too. You better get used to it because I’m here to stay.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Shannon…you’ve always been mine.” “Are you sure I’m not too much for you?” “How could you ever be too much for me when I can’t get enough of you?” he said.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“His hands shifted to my face and he kissed me, fast and hard. It felt like a punishment and tasted like a promise.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“There’s a ton of shit I can handle,” she said, “and I’d still love if someone stepped in front of it for me.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“And though I probably couldn’t spell my own name, I knew with absolute certainty this wasn’t straight-up p-in-the-v sex. This was a spiritual event, and I, for one, wouldn’t have been surprised if some druids started chanting behind us.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Inside five days, she became my left hand, and she loved it. It was a good thing she had no idea what I was doing with my left hand when she wasn’t around.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Space Between

“I felt like I’d been waiting a very long time for someone who knew how to shatter me and also wanted to pick up all the pieces. And I felt an unpleasant sense of relief in discovering that person was my husband.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Good little girls who grew up into people-pleasing women didn't get that way through any innate altruism or feminine urge to keep the peace. We got there because we learned, at some point, that our needs were a problem best kept to ourselves. We were most worthy when our existence didn't bother anyone.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Worst Guy

“Don’t mourn the loss of people who don’t deserve you.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Why hasn’t anyone thrown me over their shoulder?” she asked. “I’m down for that. Pick me up, toss me around, treat me like a rag doll. Yes, sir. Give me some of that.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“This man was shy. While also being enormously bossy.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“You should never sit around waiting for life to start because it’s leaving you with every second.”
“You should explore the world,” I said, tears springing to my eyes for no rational reason. “Do dangerous thing. Ignore the fuck out of conventional wisdom. Walk on fire. Treat everyone with kindness because people are the only things worth holding on to. Live without regrets because there is no time for that shit. Never forget the way home, and leave a trail of breadcrumbs if you have to. Love, and get your heart broken, and say fuck it, and love again and then again.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“The dogs went crazy last night,” Gennie said. “Do you want me to tell you about it?” “Definitely,” Grace replied. “Start at the beginning. Leave nothing out. What are the dogs’ names?” “Bernie Sanders, Elliot Stabler, Olivia Benson, Sandra Day O’Connor, and RuPaul were the troublemakers,” Gennie said. “Unsurprising, with that group,” Grace said. “Go on.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“This is where you belong, Shay. This is the home and we are the family you’ve always wanted … You belong here and you belong to me.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“You’re so much … And I want all of it.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Shannon…” he sighed, his head resting on my thighs. “I want you. For a long time. A long fucking time. If you don’t, I need you to lie to me, because there’s a real possibility that I’ll cry right now if you say no.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Fear is a choice,” I said. “Danger is real, but you decide whether or not you allow fear into your mind.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I want you and I’ve known it for a long time, and I don’t want to wait anymore. I can’t. I can’t wait anymore.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I want…everything. I don’t know what everything is, but I want it.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“The smile I’d caught yesterday, the lightness in her – I hadn’t realized I’d missed it until it was there again, bright and warm and magnetic.
I was so fucked.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“It was as if Strawberry Shortcake fucked Winston Churchill, and nine months later, Shannon Walsh was born.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I didn’t care that she’d leave again and I’d never recover. I didn’t care because I knew what it felt like to hold her and kiss her and nothing else in the world mattered. Nothing fucking mattered.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“She was beautiful in a way that overwhelmed me, though it wasn’t just her face, her body. She was a sunbeam through a storm cloud.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Shannon: He’s gone out of his way to avoid speaking to me for the past four days because of this.
Will: You want me to kill him?
Shannon: No but I appreciate the offer.
Will: Anytime
Will: You’re not a bitch, peanut.
Shannon: I’m pretty sure you’ve been telling me otherwise for months.
Will: I’m allowed to insult you, I make up for it in orgasms. Those other fuckers are not, and God help them if they upset you again.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“The way you're looking at me right now," he said, his voice turning thick, his words plucked one by one. "It tells me you have no idea that I'm lost to you, that I'm in love with you, that I can't fucking breathe without you.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“There was no one else for me. My world started and ended with her sitting beside me on those dark morning rides to school, and it started up all over again when I found her on my farm.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“How much longer do you think we can do this?” he asked.
“I don’t think anyone else is coming up here, so…”
“No.” His lips passed over my cheek and temple, stopping there while his hand slipped under my dress. “How much longer can we pretend this is enough?”
― Kate Canterbary, Necessary Restorations