Walking Disaster Quotes

“I kissed her again, tenderly touching my lips to hers. “Now what?”
“Kiss the kids, and then you and I can celebrate eleven years of in-your-face-we-made-it. How about that?”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“I was just as in love with her in our eleventh year as I was in the first. Every anniversary was a victory, a middle finger to everyone who thought we wouldn't last. Abby tamed me, marriage settled me down, and when I became a father, my entire outlook changed.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“First, it’s okay to be sad. It’s okay to feel things. Remember that. Second, be a kid for as long as you can. Play games, Travis. Be silly”—her eyes glossed over—“and you and your brothers take care of each other, and your father. Even when you grow up and move away, it’s important to come home. Okay?”
My head bobbed up and down, desperate to please her.
“One of these days you’re going to fall in love, son. Don’t settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn’t come easy, the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting. Never”—she took a deep breath—“stop fighting for what you want. And never”—her eyebrows pulled in—“forget that Mommy loves you. Even if you can’t see me.” A tear fell down her cheek. “I will always, always love you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Even though we’d put each other through hell, we’d found heaven.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Abby did a little happy dance before jogging down the hall to the bedroom. The corners of my mouth turned up. What other woman would be that excited to see her boyfriend trade punches? No wonder I fell in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass
"You told them?" I asked Trenton, my voice broken.
Trenton nodded.
I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbing me of my senses and physically, excruciatingly painful. My mother's words echoed in my ear. Abby was the girl I had to fight for, and I went down fighting. None of it was ever going to be enough.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“In another life, I could love you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Oh! Thanks for the public service announcement about what not to do in college, Mr. Eighteen-year-old-frat-boy-with-eleventy-billion-'serious'-girlfriends-under-his-belt!


Get in the fucking car. You're a mean drunk.

You haven't seen me mean, mama's boy!

I told you we're close!

Yeah, so are me and my asshole! Doesn't mean I'm going to call it twice a day!

You're a bitch!

Take. Me. Home.

I'd love to, if you'd get in the fucking car!”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“At such moments
felt my mind wake up with the temptation of life
gathering courage for flowering beauty
even in the desert of living.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“The whole feeling-out-of-my-element thing was pissing me off, and then I had Pepé Le Pew over there threatening my death.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“¡No puedes decirme qué hacer, Travis! ¡No te pertenezco!

¡BUENO, YO TE PERTENEZCO!”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“He held me tight against him until I quit struggling, and then he flicked the strap of my dress, causing it to hang off my shoulder.

''Since the word virgin came out of those beautiful lips of yours... I have a sudden urge to help you out of that dress.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“That situation is a broken heart just waiting to happen”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“Decidí hace mucho tiempo que alimentaria a los buitres hasta que una paloma llegara. Una paloma. El tipo de alma que no impedía a nadie, simplemente caminaría alrededor preocupándose por sus propios asuntos, tratando de pasar por la vida sin tener que tirar abajo todos los demás con sus propias necesidades y hábitos egoístas”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“No puedo ganar contigo. ¡Nunca hago nada bien contigo! Me dices que lo has superado… ¡Me siento malditamente miserable con esto! Tuve que romper mi teléfono en mil pedazos para evitar llamarte a cada minuto de cada maldito día. He tenido que aparentar que todo está bien en la escuela para que puedas ser feliz… y ¿estás jodidamente enojada conmigo? Me rompiste el jodido corazón.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Jesús, alguna vez quise decir las palabras, pero apenas podía admitirlo ante mí mismo, y mucho menos a ella. En el fondo yo sabía que era un pedazo de mierda, y ella se merecía algo mejor. Una parte de mí quería que la llevara a la habitación y mostrarle por qué ella era diferente, pero también fue lo único que me detuvo. Ella era mi opuesto: Inocente en la superficie, y dañada profundamente en su interior. Había algo en ella que necesitaba en mi vida, y aunque no estaba seguro de lo que era, no podía dar a mis malos hábitos y joderla. Ella era el tipo de las que perdona, yo podía ver, pero tenía líneas dibujadas que yo sabía que no debía cruzarlas.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Travis watched me pull hair away from my face and then walked to the door, holding it open.

''I wouldn't let anything happen to you, Pigeon.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“So how you’re gonna play this?” Trenton asked.
“Divide and conquer.”
“Divide what?”
“His head from the rest of his body.”
Trenton nodded quickly. “Good plan.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Teach that asshole some manners.”
I winked at her and smiled. “Anything for you, baby.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Class starts in five. You
riding in the Charger?”
“Nah. I’m going to see if I can get Abby on the back of my bike again. It’s the closest I can get to
the inside of her thighs.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Jesus, Shep. I told you . . .”
“I know what you said. You have eighteen missed calls.”
“All Trent?”
“One is from Panty Wearers Anonymous.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Abby was ass up, her arms dangling behind me.
Abby moaned, and then her body lurched. The awful groan/growl that always accompanied vomit preceded a splashing sound. The back of my legs felt wet.
"Tell me she didn't," I said, frozen.
Shepley bent back for a second, and then righted himself. "She did.”
― Jamie McGuire

“Abby era nueva y asustadiza en esto como yo. Los dos teníamos una manera bastante pobre de lidiar con nuestras emociones, y supe al segundo de darme cuenta que me había enamorado de ella que me iba a destrozar.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“It’s going to crap everywhere, Travis. It’ll bark and whine and . . . I don’t know.”
“So does America . . . minus the crapping.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“One of these days you're going to fall in love,son. Don't settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn't come easy, the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting".”
― Jamie McGuire