Paula > Paula's Quotes

“I like that you make everyone around you fall in love with you... including me. Especially me.”
― Juliana Smith, Signed, Sealed, Delivered

“I hate that you're the one person I need most and yet the one person I cannot have.”
― Juliana Smith, Signed, Sealed, Delivered

“You have two options right now: marry me or move out tomorrow, because my brain can't take this anymore. You consume my every thought. I have tried so, so hard not to fall for you, but nothing works.”
― Juliana Smith, Signed, Sealed, Delivered

“I haven’t been home in years, but I feel that way with you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“I want to be here to bring you coffee. I want to take you out to dinner and order the same food and hear you recite the odds that we would have met. I want to hate-attend fancy social events together.” Jess laughed, a surprised burst of sound, and his tone softened. “I want you to call me for help—without an apology already on the tip of your tongue. I want to feel like I can kiss you again by your car at the end of the night.” He swallowed. “I want you in my bed.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“I realize your default energy level is Cardboard Cutout, but I can’t get to know you if you don’t speak.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“I generally want to commit a felony when I see him. I'm not sure that's a sign of romantic compatibility.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“How does he look at me?” Janis smiled. “Like he never wants to look away.”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men. And she had long known that assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Whenever you’re close, everything is better. The closer you are, the easier I breathe, the less I feel like life is just a never-ending pour of lemon juice into an open wound that won’t heal. You take away the dark, the cold. And you remind me what it’s like to want to be here.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“Your gun is digging into me.” “That’s not my gun,” I said through clenched teeth.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“Thanks for the dance, Angel.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“This connection I felt was real, tangible, and deep, but I didn’t know how deep it went for her. And I wasn’t about to scare her off with the level of my need for her.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“Now that I was thinking about it, I didn’t remember a time when I wasn’t feeling lonely.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“As far as friends went, I didn’t really have any–not because I didn’t want them, but because making friends as an adult is hard. Honestly, I enjoyed solitute, but there’s a difference between that and being lonely.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“If you like who you are, why is it so hard to believe other people do too?”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“You're the moon and I’m the tides. You pull me in without even trying, and I come to you willingly. I always will.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“I followed my dreams, and they led me back to you.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“You say you're not nice, or warm, or bright, or any of these other stupid fucking words that people use to describe the sun, but I never asked you to be the
sun. I would rather have the moon anyway.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“When you're treated a certain way for so long, you start to believe that's how you should be treated. It left me feeling like there wasn't anything about me that someone could love.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“Ada had drawn her line and I didn't want to cross it. Well, I did want to cross it. But I wanted her to want me to cross it.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“But depression wasn't a logical disease. It was an unexpected cold front in the middle of July.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“Even when I was happy, I was thinking about when I
wouldn't be. Honestly, it was exhausting. It took up so much of my brain even though I recognized that there wasn't very much I could do about it.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“That's what I meant when
I said that my brain didn't feel like my own sometimes. It felt like it belonged to my mental
illness instead.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“When she saw me, she hit me with the quiet smile that had become my favorite. When she smiled at me that way, it was like sharing a secret that only the two of us knew.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“I was grieving all of the parts of myself that I lost or gave up in the name of comfort because I would rather have been comfortable than happy. I chose to prioritize my false sense of security instead of me.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“I think I might have been homesick for Rebel Blue before I knew it existed.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“Oh, so that's what you're trying to do, push me away. Well, guess what, sweetheart? You can push all you want, but I’m not going anywhere.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled

“The little things are the big things, Ada. They're the
things all the big things are made of I might not know you all the way, but I want to, and I'm just asking you to give me a chance to do that.”
― Lyla Sage, Swift and Saddled