Top 100 Kristan Higgins Quotes
#2. Huge mammals surrounded us, any one of whom could easily overturn our stupid little boat. Tripod would drown. I would drown. Joe would undoubtedly be rescued by mermaids seduced by his beauty.
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#3. Mrs. Plutarski is such a pill to me. You'd think I
routinely crapped on the altar, the way she treats me.
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#4. He didn't look away.
No one looked at a person that way anymore. They checked their phones, or scanned the horizon, or glanced around.
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#6. How is it?" Madeleine asked with a condescending smile.
"Delicious. Want some?"
"I don't eat things that once had a heartbeat."
"That's what he said," I mumbled around the food.
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#7. Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All
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#8. What some people don't understand about new clothes is it's not about the clothes. It's the promise of how happy you'll be when you wear them, the wonderful things you'll be doing in them, how people will look at you and say, yes, there's a woman who really likes herself.
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#10. Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.
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#11. You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.
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#12. Now that I thought of it, perhaps whacking the burglar wasn't quite ... necessary.
It occurred to me that he said "Hi." I thought he did, anyway. He said hi. Do burglars usually
greet their victims? Hi. I'd like to rob your house. Does that work for you?
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#13. He had all the rough and sultry appeal of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Clive Owen in Sin City. Russell Crowe in everything he did.
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#14. I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
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#15. My phone dings with a text. Mom: I bought you a rape whistle. There was a gangland slaying on your street last week.
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#16. Elle complimented me on my weight loss and asked me which diet I was on. Acid stomach, I wanted to say. You should try it. I can introduce your husband to Emmanuelle if you want.
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#17. He turned on the radio, and sure enough, the meteorologists were practically peeing themselves with joy. "Wind gusts up to fifty miles per hour, heavy rains, some local flooding. Stay inside, folks!
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#18. Then, walking across the room, hips swaying, blond hair flowing as if in a shampoo commercial, came Joe's date. Tall. Skinny. Big boobs despite the skinniness, their cantaloupe-like roundness announcing them as store-bought
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#19. For twelve years, I've been trying to make him just one of the guys. He's not.
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#20. Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.
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#21. I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
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#22. Then James took Parker's hands, and without waiting, gave her a long, hot kiss that made her nearly forget there were a hundred people watching. Then he pulled back and smiled that full, wonderful grin, his dark eyes so happy.
"Parker," he said, "always lovely to see you.
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#23. But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.
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#25. Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do after the mistake that matters.
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#27. And here I still think of you as the woman I loved more than I've ever loved anyone
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#28. Our families were herded out of the room, and I snuggled little Ainsley closer, smelling her head, a smell I already recognized. I'd cheerfully kill for her, happily lay down my life for her without a second's hesitation and with a smile on my face. My beautiful baby. My gift.
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#29. Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better ... noble and generous and beneficent.
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#30. I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.
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#31. My blood pressure surges. Folks, unless you've walked the walk, never tell a widow it's time she moved on.
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#32. One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.
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#33. You shouldn't give him a ride, Grace!" Meme snapped. "He's likely to strangle you and dump your body in the lake."
"Is this true?" I asked Callahan.
"I was thinking about it," he admitted.
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#34. And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me ...
"What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well.
"My future wife. The mother of my children.
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#35. She wasn't used to men being jealous. It was a freakishly new sensation, and not one hundred percent bad, if she was being honest. Seventy-five percent bad, sure. Twenty-five percent thrilling, in a guilty sort of way.
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#36. Nick," I murmured, "should I ever head into the cellar armed only with a ladle after the police have just warned me that a psychotic killer is on the loose, please slap me.
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#37. You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.
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#38. I'd known friends who went through this, the grim tracking of the ovulation cycle, the way making love becomes insemination, as romantic as a turkey baster. One of my college friends, in fact, had said she preferred the turkey baster. "I don't have to pretend that way,
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#39. Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match, but, hey. It sounded good.
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#40. I knock cheerfully on the super's door - shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits!
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#41. Wrong," he growls in a voice I've never heard. "Very, very wrong, Chastity. If we were together and didn't work, I'd be out you. You're the one I can't lose
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#42. After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.
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#43. I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.
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#44. We're trained to help damsels in distress." "If you ever call me that again, I'll kick you in the soft parts.
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#45. Men never had to deal with this, Faith thought. Men didn't hide in bathrooms and wrestle microfiber and pantyhose. Totally not fair. Men had it easy. Did men get bikini waxed and wear uncomfortable underwear? No, they did not. Faith would bet her life that a man had invented thongs. Men sucked.
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#46. To get a hug from your dad makes you feel safer than just about anything in the world, and in his arms, you don't have to be brave or strong or selfless. You're daddy's little girl again, and just knowing he's there makes everything a little better, even if it doesn't really change anything.
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#47. proudly living in a refrigerator-sized apartment with three other students.
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#48. And all that 'don't want to lose you' is utter bullshit. But just in case it's true, guess what? You did lose me. Just now.
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#49. And stop whispering into my hair. You might chip a tooth, I've got so much crap sprayed in there." "I know," he whispered, sending a shiver down her side. "You smell like ethanol. I can feel my brain cells dying.
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#50. I Google "five star hotels, new york city" and scroll through the list. The Surrey - nah, too fussy. The Peninsula - just looked at that one last week. Anything Trump - no, thanks, too overdone.
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#51. All I can say is ... she's been a good friend. And in her own special way, she's a ball of insecurities, but so aren't we all, right?
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#52. There are only perfect, glowing moments, like this one, and then there are the everyday moments that weave them together into a shimmering path that can always be seen, even in the dark. "You
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#53. I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.
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#54. Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier.
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#55. What's more appealing than a guy who gets down on his knees and lets your dog lick his face?
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#56. It's not you. The stupidest line in the history of lines.
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#57. But I hardly hear anyone, because Trevor is kissing me and whispering, over and over, I love you, Chas. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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#58. He had the kind of looks that made breathing irrelevant
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#59. Then he slid his hand into my hair and pulled me closer, and when he kissed me, my heart hurt from happiness, if such a thing was possible. "I missed you," I whispered against his mouth.
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#60. Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.
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#61. When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
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#62. Then she smiled, just a flash, and something moved in Liam's chest. Something warm, and something he hadn't felt in a long time.
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#63. My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world ... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive ... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!
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#64. So tell me what brings you here," Laney says. Adam and I look at each other. He says nothing. Ass-hat. That's one of Jenny's favorite words, and it's becoming one of mine, too. I wait him out, staring steadily, wondering if he can feel the poison seeping out of my heart.
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#66. He has quite an array of T-shirts. This one is faded gray with faint blue letters spelling out Starfleet Academy. Such a dork. Then again, I know exactly what Starfleet Academy is, so I'm in the same dork boat.
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#67. Well, you always remember people who hurt your feelings.
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#69. God must've had single women in mind when he invented dogs
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#70. Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
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#71. I'd be happy with Daniel. I already was. The fact that the universe had given me two lovely men and a baby in the space of a year...well, the universe was full of tricks and mystery.
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#72. If we're not going to get married, we need to break up. So ... shit or get off the pot,
honey."
"That was beautiful," murmured Father Bruce as he opened a menu.
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#73. I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.
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#74. Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though ... they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked noodle in the pasta salad of love.
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#75. In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy.
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#76. THE LAST TIME my husband and I had sex, I fell asleep. Not after. During.
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#78. I don't want to lose you, I love you, and ... and that's all I've got.
As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went ... different story.
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#79. I have a small phobia about being alone with women," he said smoothly.
"So I always come with him," Patricia said. "Always."
"Ah." Dear God, where do You hide the normal people? Love, Emmaline
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#80. God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that?
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#81. It was just that his heart belonged to someone else, and they both knew it. They never spoke of it, but it was true just the same.
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#82. If indeed there was an intruder in the McIntosh house, it would be deeply satisfying to apprehend him. Barb McIntosh suspected a sex offender, and, if she was right, Em knew exactly where she'd target the electrodes.
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#83. So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap.
"Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up.
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#84. There was something about being a child of divorce ... I'd always felt somehow responsible for everyone's mood. If I was cute and cheerful enough, I believed, everyone would be happy. If they weren't, clearly I wasn't trying hard enough.
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#85. Snarky, sexy and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!.
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#86. The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit ... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.
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#88. Instead of answering, I just wrapped my arms around him and kissed him for all I was worth. Because when you meet The One, you just know.
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#89. It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving toward you.
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#90. Nina, I really would like to go spend some time with Faith," he said bluntly.
"To make me jealous?"
"No. Because she's ... "
"Sweet?" Nina said, pulling a face and batting her eyelashes
"Mine.
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#91. Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.
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#92. You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.
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#93. It's safe to be in love with someone you know you'll never have. Nothing is really risked when you know you can't lose. He was a distraction, an excuse, and a friend. No more, no less.
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#94. Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.
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#95. I don't date. I'm strictly for recreational purposes. - Leo
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#96. I needed to mourn my father, that wonderful, sweet, gentle man.
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#97. Are you alright?" Jonathan stood before me, also soaked, though his hair looked quite... well, Darcy-esque; there was really no other word for it. Colin Firth and Jane Austen had ruined us chicks for other men, let's face it.
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#98. So because of their affair, Emmanuelle gets a promotion and a raise, Adam gets a vacation, and I got an STD panel.
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#99. Well, listen, sweetheart. Boys only want one thing, of course, and guess what that means for you? Heartbreak. Pregnancy. Chlamydia, herpes, syphilis, crabs.
That's beautiful, Dad. You should set it to music.
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#100. Liam's face grew serious. I'll take good care of you, Cordelia. I promise.
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