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“The love stories sold us the wrong thing. The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about. Taking the end piece of the bread at breakfast so she can have the last middle piece for her sandwich when you pack her lunch. Making sure her car always has gas so she never has to stop at the pump. Telling her you’re not cold and to take your jacket when you are in fact, very, very cold. It’s watching TV on a rainy Sunday while you’re doing laundry and turning her light off when she’s fallen asleep reading. Sharing pizza crusts and laughing about something the kids did and taking care of each other when you’re sick. It isn’t glamorous, it isn’t all butterflies and stars in your eyes. It’s real. This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“the feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“To my left is a floor-to-ceiling three-million-dollar view of the ocean, but to my right is the view I would give my soul to see every day for the rest of my life.”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

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

“Annie: You’d do that for me? Will: I’m quickly learning I’d do anything for you.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I think some things are worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet

“Good. No cold feet? Because I could pull the truck around if you need a quick escape.”
“Only if Amelia is escaping with me.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“The honest truth is I’m celibate by choice. I don’t know, one day I just woke up and realized I was done trying to trick myself into thinking I wanted anyone other than Bree. If it’s not with her, I don’t want it.”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet

“I wouldn’t run through a train station for Michael. But I would do it for Wes.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

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

“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

“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

“If I waited until I felt confident to live my life and do the things I want to do, I’d never live.” He stares into my eyes. “This lesson is one as old as time: Fake it till you make it. If you want something, pretend you’re the kind of person who’s not scared of it.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Why not forgive? In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy, Justin.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Will Griffin is absolutely not the kind of man I need.
Too bad he’s very quickly becoming the man I want.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“It seems to me, Annie, that you are just waiting for someone to give you permission to be yourself out loud.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“It’s funny how when you find someone you like as much as I liked her, the destination is suddenly wherever they are.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I’m terrified to admit that holding her in my arms is the closest I’ve come to feeling truly happy in a very long time.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

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

“Because she has a hold on me that I can’t figure out. Because her eyes do this sparkly thing when she’s excited and the light hits them just right. Because the curve of her bottom lip is perfect. Because I feel desperate to know what wild thing she’s going to say next anytime she’s around.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“And then I called my brother, and as we talked, I realised that leaving this town without you was the scariest thought I’ve ever had. I need you in my life like I need air, Annie. You have wrecked me in the best way I could ever imagine, and I’ll never be the same. Never want to be the same. I love you.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I’ve never wanted to crawl into someone’s head and read all of their thoughts like I do with Annie. My need to understand her, to know every desire, every hope and fear and longing, scares me.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Because it’s only an insult if I accept it as one.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Dammit,” he whispers and then looks at me one more time. “You look very pretty.” I feel a smile in my soul before it reaches my lips. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” “It is for me.”
― Sarah Adams, When in Rome

“Your soul is my favorite in this entire world,”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet

“Bree, hope is healthy. Even if you prepare yourself for the worst in life, it will never make the fall hurt less.”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet

“Your ability to shoulder everything, to give 200% of yourself all the time, to be perfect at everything you attempt…these are not the attributes that make you a valuable human being.” I pause. “And they are not why I fell in love with you.” His black eyes shoot up to me. I smile. The weight of these heavy secrets falls off of me, and I feel relieved to continue. “I fell in love with you because you’re goofy. You’re fun. Your heart is so big I don’t know how it fits in here,” I say, pressing my hand to his chest. “You’re a terrible singer. You make me soup when I’m sick. You bought me tampons that time I was laid out on the couch with cramps and couldn’t move. You didn’t even send someone else for them. You went yourself!”
― Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet