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“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“A laugh I'd recognize anywhere”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than Before

“Her eyebrows furrowed. "What are you doing?"

"What do you mean?"

"Are you being a dick about my hair? Because I know you're not complimenting me."

"Lizzie," I said, pouring on the tease, even though I fucking loved her new hair. It was shorter and cute as hell, but no way could I give her a genuine compliment.

We didn't do that.

So I said, "Your hair is the stuff of cheerleader fantasy. Of main character daydreams. Your hair runs so that young gingers' hair can walk."

She bit down on the inside of her cheek and-holy shit-looked like she wanted to laugh. "Are you high, Wes Bennett?”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than Before

“She bit down on the inside of her cheek and-holy shit-looked like she wanted to laugh. "Are you high, Wes Bennett?”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than Before

“Y’know, Buxbaum, someday you might see it differently.”
I tilted my head, crossed my arms, and said, “I was talking about you, Wes, not kissing in general.”
His lips slid up into the dirtiest of smirks. “Oh, I know, Elizabeth.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than Before

“Are you high, Wes Bennett?”

"I'll answer that if you answer this: Were you playing Beyoncé on the piano last night?"

Her green eyes went wide, and her mouth dropped open. "You heard me?"

"The windows were open," I said, shrugging like it was the first time I'd ever heard her, "and I was having a smoke out back. So was it 'Halo'?"

"You smoke?" She was looking at me like I was a puzzle, like she couldn't figure me out.

"No. Was it?"

The crinkle in her forehead grew somehow. "Yes. So ... do you or don't you?"

"Like Beyonce? Fucking love her."

She rolled her eyes. "Why do I even bother trying to have a conversation with you?"

"Because you're fascinated and want to know more."

She snorted.

"Because you find me wildly attractive and need some insight into my soul?"

"Try again."

"Because you want to reconcile the data you've entered into your diary about me with the real-life, actual facts?"

"So you are high.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than Before

“Why are your cheeks red?"

He was looking at me like I was a silly child, and I kind of wanted to hurt him. "Because I'm sitting in the hot sun, dumbass."

"No need for name-calling when I'm trying to help you."

"How are you trying to help me, exactly?"

"If you're interested in Charlie, I can provide the assist."

"No offense, but I will never-in my entire life-want you anywhere near my love life."

"Never say never."

"Nevernevernevernever and oh, yeah-never."

"You wound me, Buxbaum," he said, putting his hand over his heart.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than Before

“You can’t wait 17 hours for me?’
‘Buxbaum, I’ve waited my whole life for you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better than the Prom

“Buxbaum, I've waited my whole life for you.”
― Lynn painter, Better than the Prom

“We were both grinning, and for some reason, I felt an invisible string pulling me closer to her as she smiled up to me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“He teased relentlessly and was the funniest person I’d ever met, yet I knew for a fact that he listened to Conan Gray and Gracie Abrams on repeat all the time (I had his Spotify password).”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Karma was supposed to be a cat, dammit, not this.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Maybe karma was a girl in glasses.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“And by "prefer lighter reading," she meant that she read five or six romance novels. A week”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“You are fucking gorgeous when you’re kiss drunk, Mitchell, did you know that?”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I love you, Glasses." "I love you, too Mr. Nothing”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I was in the middle of drawing eyeliner tails (harp enough to kill a man, of course)”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Everyone started yelling out suggestions, and then Charlie said, “ ‘All Too Well.’ The ten-minute version.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

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

“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”

I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”

He grins up at me. “They missed.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King