Top 88 Miranda Kenneally Quotes
#1. Maybe you don't have to figure life out at all.
Maybe it just is.
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#2. But you're kind of like a great book ... you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful cover ... but it's what's inside that pulls you in.
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#3. But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?
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#4. Suddenly I have the first knee problems of my life: they turn to rubber.
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#5. I know some people wonder whether Heaven and Hell truly exist, but do those people question whether gravity exists? Or oxygen? You can't see those with your naked eye, either. I can't see cologne on a guy's body, but I can smell it. I may not be able to see Heaven, but deep inside, I can feel it
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#6. They grin at each other lovingly and my insides curl up and die.
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#7. What's the occasion?" I ask.
He glances up at me and takes a deep breath. "You're the occasion, Woods. I've missed you so, so much.
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#8. All decisions are different in hindsight. Maybe all we can do is make the best decisions we can in the moment, using the best information we have right then.
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#11. Maybe all that matters is that he's right for me, and I'm right for him.
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#12. Ty better appreciate how hard I've worked to make myself attractive for him this morning because I am fucking spent.
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#14. Any chance that you're pregnant?' the technician says as he pulls the X-ray lamp over my swollen knee.
'No,' Henry and Dad say at the same time.
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#15. When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.
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#17. If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.
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#18. Texans take their football seriously. It's practically a religion down there.
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#19. It's not that guys aren't interested in me, because they are, it's that most of the guys I know are either:
1. Shorter than me;
2. Pansies;
3. On my team;
4. All of the above.
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#20. Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.
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#22. I love you." I laugh. "You already said that." "I've never said it before. I like it ... I think I'll keep saying it.
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#24. You don't need anyone's permission to do what you love. You should just do it.
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#25. You only live once, and if something feels right to you and you want it, you should go after it.
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#26. Henry keeps dealing. When all the cards have been separated, I pick up my stack and shuffle my cards again. Then I look up into Henry's eyes, and he's staring back at me, at my tears, and I see all these tiny wrinkles around his eyes-sadness wrinkles. He frowns, biting his lip.
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#27. If you don't put yourself out there, if you don't take risks, you can't truly feel.
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#28. Keep telling yourself that. Thanks for scaring them off. Turn around so I can get dressed."
"No."
"No?"
"No." He stares straight into my eyes. "I didn't scare them off for you. I did it for me. I'm coming in with you.
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#29. You're right, man! These
corndogs are crap! Drew yelled,
launching a corndog straight at JJ's
face.
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#30. What is it with me and guys? Do I come on too strong? Why do none of them want to stick around? I'm gonna be forty years old and out on a date with some man, and we'll make out, then he'll tell me we're not meant to be, and I'll go home to my fourteen cats.
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#31. You make me feel three times the rush of skydiving or bungee jumping ... I felt the biggest rush of my life when you said you love me.
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#32. One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't necessarily mean you get to be with them.
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#33. It's like with art. You can't tell someone how to do it, or it's not her art. You can't tell someone else how to believe.
It's up to Go to judge, and for me to help the people I love the best I can.
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#35. I just miss him, that's all." I feel tears welling again. "I hate that we don't play cards anymore. I hate waking up alone.
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#36. I lose part of myself that day and I don't want to lose even more.
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#38. I once read that football was invented so people wouldn't notice summer ending. But I couldn't wait for summer vacation to end. I couldn't wait for football. Football, dominator of fall - football, love of my life.
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#39. But I'm practically a guy. I mean, except for these fucking hormones that make me want to jump Ty and Justin Timberlake. I don't obsess over things that other girls care about, like clothes, movie stars, hair, painting nails, knitting, or whatever shit they're into.
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#40. Henry looks from my face back to the field, and his eyes pop open wide. I turn to see why he's gaping: JJ and Carter are messing around, trying
to shove a scrawny wide receiver into Jerry Rice's stroller.
"JJ!" Henry yells, "You can't fit a freshman in that stroller.
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#41. Tonight, I may get so nervous that I spill my Coke of drop popcorn down inside my top. Oh God, is my red leather halter cut too low? I look down to make sure I'm not wardrobe-malfunctioning.
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#44. Not only can I teach you math, I can teach you math in bed, Jordan. You know, I'll add the bed, you subtract the clothes, you divide the legs, and I'll multiply
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#45. His smile is a virus. A virus sweeping through my body, rendering it useless.
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#47. The honest to God truth is that I'm mad at myself. I should've known better.
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#49. We stick together, and it makes me feel a little better knowing that, even at thirty-two, Liza hasn't figured her life out yet.
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#50. He laughs softly and gazes into my eyes, and it feels like everything stops. The wind stops rustling the grass. We both stop breathing. The only thing that keeps on are the twinkling stars.
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#52. This must be the weirdest thing a football coach has ever seen: two quarterbacks making out.
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#53. Dad told me that even if you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't mean you necessarily get to be with them. But sometimes? Maybe you do. I guess we'll find out.
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#54. For what it's worth," Dad says, running his fingers over the picture, "I've never seen anyone run faster than Henry after you hurt your knee last week.
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#55. I know I could never deserve you, but I can try to make it up to you?
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#56. We've been best friends forever and now he can't even talk to me?
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#57. When God created the Earth, he had such a sick wicked sense of humor. He made everything that's wrong feel really, really good.
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#58. A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don't define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else.
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#59. My nose ring mixed with poor church attendance make for a sin cocktail.
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#60. You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.
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#61. You were in the equipment shed with Corn Fritter?"
"Corndog," Will, Dr. Salter, and I say simultaneously.
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#62. I am so lucky. I used to think trust means "never let you down", but really, it's about love. Family can't always help fix a difficult situation, and everybody makes mistakes. We shouldn't expect perfect. But we can hope that the people we love love us enough to try to make it right.
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#63. If you spend too much time dreaming, you'll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there's a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.
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#65. So what does Just Tacos have to do with kissing?"
"Besides the fact I absolutely love both?" he asks.
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#66. How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?
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#67. Sometimes you gotta do what's right for you and forget about everybody else. All that matters is what you want. What you need.
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#68. Don't tell Mom and Dad about Ty,' I warn Mike. 'But they'll be so glad to hear you aren't gay!
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#69. Sometimes you have to give something up to get something better.
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#71. Jordan, he's loved you forever. It's obvious. Have you not seen how he stares at you?
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#72. Why were you watching me change?" I explain. "Uh, 'cause I'm a guy?" He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again.
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#73. Sounds like Henry was jealous. His pride was hurt. So he acted like an ass. Every guy does that from time to time.
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#74. Everything is about balance ... it took me so long to figure that out.
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#75. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know?
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#76. I don't get it. I mean, he told me he loved me and then just disappeared. How could he? We've been best friends forever and now he can't even talk to me? What the hell?
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#77. It's a scary thing to wake up and realize the people you need most aren't nearby anymore ... But you keep moving.
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#78. I don't obsess over things that other girls care about, like clothes, movie stars, hair, painting nails, knitting or whatever shit they're into. I just want to eat a bunch of hot wings, sleep, play ball, and maybe, someday, make out with Ty.
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#79. I kiss his forehead. "You are a wimpy idiot. But ... I still love you."
"I love you too, Woods.
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#80. Apparently "love thy neighbour" changes to "judge thy neighbour" if your family doesn't follow the church playbook.
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#81. Henry's face grows pink, pinker than those ridiculous bras Mom recently left on my bed when she decided I needed something more feminine than a sports bra.
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#83. Learning is never a bad thing. And neither is changing your mind about things ... It's always good to reevaluate. To think and consider all sides.
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#84. As uncomfortable as I feel, I keep the girly underwear on anyway. Who knows? Provided they stay the hell out of my butt crack, they might make me feel sexier later on today.
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#85. As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for something called the Presidential Fitness Test. I'd huff and puff and wonder why the hell President Bush cared how fast I could run laps around the playground. I always came in dead last.
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#86. So what did you want to talk about?" I ask
Ty grins that wicked smile of his again. He whispers, "I lied. I just wanted an excuse to sit with you.
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#87. I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday's trining session. Until then, I wasn't aware Usain Bolt was my running coach
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#88. Before I can answer, the horde descends on him. It's scarier than a zombie apocalypse.
"Shit," he mutters.
"Oh my God, I love ketchup too!" a girl squeals at the bottle in his hand. "We have so much in common!
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