Veronica Narbeshuber > Veronica's Quotes

“I'll let you out. ... Just not yet.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Those are the four most beautiful words in the English language. You can go now.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“He’s almost perfect. And I hate his guts.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“No puedo fiarme de nadie, salvo de mí misma. (I can't trust anyone, except myself.)”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“My aunt used to say, if you don't fit in, fool everyone until you do.

She also said to keep your passport renewed, to pair red wines with meat and whites with everything else, to find work that is fulfilling to your heart as well as your head, to never forget to fall in love whenever you can find it because love is nothing if not a matter of timing, and to chase the moon. Always, always chase the moon.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You’re an Excel spreadsheet to my chaos.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“there was a delicious sort of irony to reading a travel guide about a city you lived in. My aunt used to say that you could live somewhere your entire life and still find things to surprise you.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Let's go chase the moon, my darling Clementine."
And we did.
She didn't know where we were going, and I certainly didn't either.
We never had a plan, my aunt and I, when we chased an adventure.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“it bends time when you least expect it."
Like the pages of a book, uniting a prologue with a happy ending, an epilogue with a tragic beginning, two middles, two climaxes, two stories that never quite meet in the world outside.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“("You always know," she told me conspiratorially. "You always know the moment you fall.")”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“What do you like to read?"
"Books."
"What kind of Books?"
"The kind with words.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“the way you do when your brain sticks on a scene and replays it over and over again years after, changing the details just slightly, but never the outcome.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“This kind of magic is heartache, I warned myself, but it didn’t matter, because a soft, almost dead part of my heart that had bloomed every summer with adventure and wonder whispered back, What do you have to lose?”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You are who you are, and you like what you like,” he replied, and there was no sarcasm in his voice. “You are you, and that’s a lovely person to be.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Your life changed because of
some French fries?"
"The things you least expect usually do.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Food”—he motioned to our almost empty plates—“is a work of art. That’s what a perfect meal is—something that you don’t just eat, but something you enjoy. With friends, and family—maybe even with strangers. It’s an experience. You taste it, you savor it, you feel the story told through the intricate flavors that play out across your tongue . . . it’s magical. Romantic.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Don't you ever color outside the lines, Lemon?”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“New things are scary.” “They don’t have to be.” “How are they not?” “Because some of my favorite things I haven’t even done yet.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You can plan everything in your life, and you'll still be taken by surprise.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“There was a gap between early twenties and late twenties that only people existing in bodies in their late twenties understood. You could still fight god, but you'd have to ice your knees afterward.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn't like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they'd live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You gave me the moon, my darling!" she had said happily. "Oh, what a lovely and impossible gift." She had always told me to chase the moon. To surround myself with people who would lasso it down in a heartbeat.”
― Ashley Poston, Diary of a Street Diva

“It felt nice to do something for me again. To just be. No to-do lists to keep pushing myself through, no expectations. Just me.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I didn't need to be fixed. I just needed...to be reminded that I was human.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Whenever I took a closer look at him, he was disorienting in the kind of way kaleidoscopes were, constantly moving and shifting, full of colors and shapes that shouldn't have gone together but did in a way that made it perfect.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Universal truths in butter. Secrets folded into the dough. Poetry in the spices. Romance in a chocolate. Love in a lemon pie.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You can just dance, Lemon. You can take the lead.” “And you’ll follow?” “To the moon and back,” he replied,”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip