Mallory > Mallory's Quotes

“If you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“You and me against the world, princess.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“You are the light to my dark, Sunshine,” he said in a raw voice. His lips brushed against mine as he spoke. “Without you, I’m lost.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

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

“She’s pretty, but her face doesn’t transform into sunlight when she talks about music.” He did that clench thing with his jaw and said, “She’s funny, but not spit-out-your-drink-in-astonishment funny.” It felt like my heart was going to explode as his eyes moved down to my lips under the glow of the buzzing streetlight. He moved his face a little closer to mine, looked into my eyes, and rumbled, “And when I see her, I don’t feel like I have to talk to her or mess up her hair or do something—anything—to get her to swing that gaze on me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“When I'm around you, I kind of feel like I'm on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case, I do them all the time. All of them.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Hey—don’t ditch me until I find Michael, okay?”

“Call me ‘Wessy,’ and I totally won’t.”

I snorted. “Fine. If you ditch me, Wessy, I will stab you with the keg tap.”

“My little Libby is such a savage.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“In your dreams, Bennett,” she teased.
“Every damn night, Buxbaum,”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“From this point on, you're mine, no other man touches you. If they do, my fingers dug into a skin. I know 79 ways to kill a man. And I can make 70 of them look like an accident.”
― Anna Huang

“Do you realize we could’ve been doing this for years if you weren’t such a pain in the ass?”
“Nah—I didn’t like you until recently.”
“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”
“You poor, confused little love lover.” A giggle shimmied through me before I set my hands on his face and said as I pulled him back to me, “Just shut up and kiss me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Everything was wrong if she wasn’t happy. Because Dani was sparkling eyes and contagious laughter. Dani was happiness.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I had a cousin who neurotically made playlists for every walking moment of her life, and that slightly obsessive habit had rubbed off on me,”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I wished I didn’t know that her lip gloss tasted like cherries. Suddenly I’ve got a killer sweet tooth.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“P.S. MY BOOK SMELLS LIKE YOUR PERFUME AND IT’S DISTRACTING AS HELL”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I didn't care about the past or the future, because nothing mattered but the present. Her. This. Fucking us.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“God bless libraries.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“He told me once that sometimes, with some people, it's not about winning or losing, That with some people, it's just about playing. Though for the longest time, I didn't really believe him.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Why would you keep something that makes you think of me?” I feel him shrug. “Because I think of you anyway, Mallory.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“You’re my favorite,” I whisper, leaning in to kiss her flushed cheek.  “Even if I had crab hands?”  “Even if you had crab hands, Anastasia.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“Don’t give me that shit. I’ve seen what you have on your smutty bookshelf.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“I can’t believe you think I could ever reject you, Anastasia,” he said in shock. “You have no idea, do you? The lengths I’d go to if you’d let me. What I’d do to make you happy.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“I love a woman who enjoys reading.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“Anastasia, you are the best thing to ever happen to me, and to call you the love of my life does not do justice to how much I love you. My existence doesn’t make sense without you by my side. For the rest of our lives, in the next life, in every alternate reality, I’ll be yours if you’ll have me. You are my best friend, my greatest gift, and Mila—and Bunny—are so blessed to have you as their mom.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“Let it all out. You’re safe. I’m here.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“I’m heavy,” she mutters as my arms scoop under her legs and around her waist.  We leave Brady and Shithead behind us as I start the walk toward the locker rooms, where the first aid room is. “Shut up, Anastasia. You’re not even half my warm-up weight.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“I love you, Elizabeth Buxbaum"
"I love you more, Wesley Harold Bennett.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“You can fall in love: someone will catch you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“You kiss him and next thing you know he's saving your ass and he's buying you scones and calling you a smart-ass in a weirdly affectionate tone”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“He’d clearly never seen a rom-com or read a romance novel in his life.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“The girl who’d laminated our decoders had left the chat, and now Dani Collins was just somebody that I used to know.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating