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“I saw him first, but it didn’t matter. Because he saw her.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths — and they were my only release.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Sometimes we’re more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don’t deserve them, or that they aren’t real, that they’ll disappear quickly and easily and we’ll be left in the ruins.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Whatever you choose, make sure it makes you happy.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn’t really hers to give in return.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“It took too long for me to realize I’d dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I’d broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he’d been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him — not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I am not sorry that i kissed you, I am only sorry that i kissed you when you were not mine to kiss!”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I wasn’t sorry the first time I kissed you, even when you weren’t mine, and I’m not sorry I kissed you the other night, even when I wasn’t yours. Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I hated him, I loved him, I hated myself for loving him. I hated myself for letting him go, for letting him find someone else. I was furious, but the truth was nearly everything he’d said about me was true.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I always loved that, the first sight of him, the first hit. It was a little jarring, like a slight burn, but the aftertaste was smooth, welcoming, like an old friend calling me home.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I’m sorry that up until now, I saw you as something I should quit instead of something I should fight for. My”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“What have you been drinking, anyway?”

“Whiskey,” he answered easily, and a short laugh escaped my lips.

“Of course. I should have guessed.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

I shrugged, using a spoon to break up a large ice chunk before replacing the top on the blender and turning it on again. “Just makes sense. You’re practically whiskey on legs, anyway. The color of your hair, your eyes, the way you smell — it’s like your spirit drink.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I was spinning, tipsy, teetering on the edge of being wasted on Whiskey. I’d dreamed of kissing Jamie so many times, but nothing could compare to how it really felt — his hands on me, so strong, his mouth skilled and passionate.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“It was heaven. It was hell. It was wrong and right and I wished I'd never started yet I never wanted to stop.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Sometimes we're more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We don't feel we don't deserve them, or that they aren't real, that they'll disappear quickly and easily and we'll be left in the ruins.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“He smelled like fall — not like pumpkin and freshly fallen leaves, but like fall in Florida — salty like the beach air, earthy like the palm trees, with a sweet spiciness that reminded me of the honey whiskey my dad always drank after Thanksgiving dinner.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I wanted a real love, a real life, and I had to paint the way to get there. It killed me to let him go, and if I'm being honest I knew I would never let him go completely. A part of him would always live in me, but I wanted that part of me subdued, buried beneath a brighter version of myself who could move on and live her life.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I felt an ending in that kiss. It was a period, a punctuation mark, and at the time I thought it was the end of the chapter. But later, I would mark it as the end of it all, the end of my addiction, my last taste of whiskey, my final dance with fire.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Years of waiting, of wanting, of wrong decisions and longing regrets. They all floated to the surface and yet drowned in the depths all at once.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“To some, whiskey is a crutch. It's a drug, it leads to addiction, it dulls the senses and damages the mind.
To others, whiskey is a medicine. A shot of bourbon can chase away what ails you, whethere it be a sore throat or a broken heart.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Turned out I had a rare, deliciously aged bottle of whiskey in my grip, but I slip it through my slick fingers and crash to the floor.
And I wasn't the one allowed to pick up the pieces.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I couldn't think of one scenario where he would lose me forever, because a piece of my soul was tied to that boy and I had already lost so much of myself at that age, I refused to let go of what little I still held onto.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I wasn’t sober for even a single minute of my three-day bender, yet I emerged with a clear head and clean spirit.

That was, until the next round of threes hit.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Life is just so damn complicated, isn't it, a series of random coincidences and chance meetings that add up to a lifetime.”
― Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

“By my reckoning, everyone gets a handful of movie-worthy moments in their lives. Some people would probably pick out their wedding day or the birth of their child for their showreel, but for most of us it's the unexpected moments life occasionally gifts our way that make for the best memories.”
― Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

“aware of the forever scorch from temporarily holding on to lightning.”
― Josie Silver, A Winter in New York