Kizzy > Kizzy's Quotes

“As far as I know, there are two ways to get over someone: Surrender to the anger that’s already there, or invent something to get angry about. Sometimes it was always wrong, and the only thing to do is stop believing it was ever good to love them. But sometimes they were good to you. Sometimes you go looking for kindling and find that green leaves won’t burn, that the garden was watered too well. Sometimes you have to rearrange the truth into something you won’t miss.

And sometimes, when enough time goes by, it gets hard to remember which one you did.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“If I can give my whole heart to love without fearing the cost, I will regret nothing.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“To me, Theo is the eternal foreground. I put them at the center of every room. It's gratifying when the room agrees.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“You know what’s funny?” she muses. “How sometimes you look at a man and it’s like, Oh, yeah, that. And then you look at a woman and it’s like, Ooh, yes, this.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Sometimes, a perfect sandwich is not just about the sandwich itself, but about the setting. The experience of eating the sandwich. Context can elevate a great sandwich to a spiritual experience.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“So crazy how two thousand years ago, they were feeling the same things we feel. They wanted to be loved, and eat good food, and make art, and fuck.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Living with Kit was like living in a pixie nest. Every night, I’d find my phone charger relocated to my nightstand and my water bottle beside it, refilled at the precise temperature I liked. Dates circled themselves on the calendar. Fresh flowers appeared whenever the old ones wilted. And no matter how carelessly I unloaded the dishwasher, when I checked the back of the utensil drawer, the measuring spoons were always there.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“I learned in Venice that most of Italy’s famous sweets originated in monastery kitchens, crafted by monks and nuns with no indulgences but sugar and flour.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Sometimes I think the only way to keep something forever is to lose it and let it haunt you.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“The truth is, I never stopped loving that person. I only stopped believing he existed.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“There’s something so admirable about his directness. I like you. Stay in my life. It’s perfectly simple, when he says it like that.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Kit!”

Theo charges out into the street, hair wild and amber in the windy dusk.

Her boots pound against the stones, and my first thought is, good. Theo should always walk with heavy footsteps. She should leave deep tracks wherever she goes so that everyone can know she was there, like a historical event. Archaeologists should put tape around her footprints and study them with brushes.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“The fog of horny war has lifted, but I'm still in the trenches. I'm down here, dying. I've got trench foot of the heart.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person's hope. Leave it with me and I'll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“There was so much I thought I’d known about Max, but now I questioned whether we had been perfect strangers in a pretence of togetherness. (...) Had I created kismet from coincidental (...)? Had I applied more soul to him than he possessed (...)? Had I trusted him too quickly and fallen too deeply, because I’d projected my own version of his personality into the holes of my knowledge of him?”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts