Micaela > Micaela's Quotes

“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“You look best when you're you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

“She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“The trick is to find that one person who can give it back as good as they can take it.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I have a theory. Hating someone feels disturbingly similar to being in love with them. I've had a lot of time to compare love and hate, and these are my observations.
Love and hate are visceral. Your stomach twists at the thought of that person. The heart in your chest beats heavy and bright, nearly visible through your flesh and clothes. Your appetite and sleep are schredded. Every interaction spikes your blood with adrenaline, and you're in the brink of fight or flight. Your body is barely under your control. You're consumed, and it scares you.
Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game - and you háve to win. Why? Your heart and your ego. Trust me, I should know.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I hope it's not too forward of me to say, but your eyes are incredible, Lucy. I die when you blink.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he’s been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since. He’s one up.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I pull back. "I'm going to have to change my computer password."
"Oh yeah? To what?"
"I-love-Josh."
"4 eva, he replies."
"You cracked my password?”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“I love you, Lucy Hutton. So much, you have no idea. Please be my best friend.”
― Sally Thorne

“How somebody can’t recognize their own eyes, I’ll never know.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He taught me things in the space of two minutes that the span of my lifetime did not.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Josh thought you were lying about your date because he can't imagine you with anyone but himself.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“Hey guys,' I said. 'Don't be idiots. This is Evan. Evan, the angry-looking one is Jerom, the constipated-looking one is Nathan, and the goofball on the right is Gage.'
Gage laughed. 'Constipated, Nathan? We said to look fierce.”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

“I knew why I cared. Why this mattered so much. Why his opinion was the only thing that mattered. I was more than crushing on him. I loved Braden.”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

“I knew that this couldn't last- that there were people waiting and he had things to do and this couldn't go on forever. But in that moment it was like everything fades away and there was only me and Clark and the possibility of us- whatever we might become- stretching forward in a hundred different directions, all of them unexpected, each one better than the last, the ending not yet written.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Oh, that is where you are mistaken. Believing that such a thing – just a kiss – has ever, for even a second, existed in this world.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Once, I dared to dare greatly.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don't ever use it against you. But some people do.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Theoretical crushes could remain perfect and flawless, because you never actually had to find out what that person was really like or deal with the weird way they chewed or anything.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“I'll answer that.' He took a deep breath, and I could see his eyes searching mine, like he was looking for an answer. 'I had thought that was the ending,' he finally said. 'But I might have been wrong.'
'I was just thinking,' I said, sure that the rest of the crowd could probably hear how hard my heart was beating, since it seemed deafening to me, pounding in my ears, 'that maybe Marjorie realized she was in love with Karl. And told him that. And said she was sorry for being scared.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Keep people at arm’s length and your feelings to yourself.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“It was like she knew a secret, a good one, and if you got close enough, maybe she'll tell you, too.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“As we stepped inside, I waited for it to get strange, now that I could see him clearly again—his brown eyes, his reddish hair, his freckles. But it didn’t. And I didn’t understand why until I’d gotten back into the car and Frank had waved at me from the door and I’d turned in the direction of home. It seemed that somewhere between the arguments about the merits of ninja movies, he’d stopped being Frank Porter, class president, unknowable person. He’d stopped being a stranger, a guy, someone I didn’t know how to talk to.  That night, in the darkness, sharing our secrets and favorite pizza-topping preferences, he’d moved closer to just being Frank—maybe, possibly, even my friend.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“It’s always a risk,” the Elder said, but more quietly now, like perhaps he was no longer speaking to her. “Wherever there is
great emotion. Because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”
“It was only a kiss,” Tamsin said, focusing back on the owl.
“Oh,” the Elder said, shaking this head, “that is where you are mistaken. Believing that such a thing—just a kiss—has ever, for even a second, existed in this world”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“And as I touched his cheek and his hand tightened on my waist, I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun" -Andie”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Every day. Even now I'm always thinking about what I want to tell her. stuff she'd find funny. It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Wait, I'm sorry, but how do you not read books? Like-what do you do on planes?”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“I stretched up to him, and we stayed liken that for just a second, not kissing, not yet, just hovering in the moment before, only a breath apart.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything