Top 38 Katie Cotugno Quotes
#1. Why are you going to let people who are hell-bent on not forgiving you keep you from something that could actually be great?
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#2. The feeling of standing on the edge of a canyon and screaming, waiting for an echo that refused to come.
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#3. Hey, stranger, he says as I climb into the passenger seat, in a voice like I'm not one at all.
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#4. I just didn't know how to do this, ... the clang and chatter ... And more than that, I didn't particularly want to learn.
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#5. Summer in Broward County is brutal and haunted,
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#6. In the morning, I wake up and find a pomegranate on my doorstep: red and perfect, round as the world itself.
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#7. It felt like he could open up my head and see inside.
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#9. (my whole life a holding pattern, some variation on wait and see)
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#10. One thing about living in South Florida is that everywhere you go is violently air-conditioned,
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#11. I was trying not to lose you. But I lost you anyway.
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#12. I think of how it felt to lose him, slow and painful and confusing, and how it felt to wonder if I'd ever really had him at all.
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#13. Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?"
"I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be?
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#14. Patrick shakes his head and we're both on the verge of tears then, like we've finally destroyed each other, finally eaten each other alive. We're never coming back from this; I know it. Both of us have finally gone too far.
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#15. I don't know how I became this person, one of those girls with a lot of drama around her. A person whose romantic garbage literally fills an entire book.
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#17. As if there's some invisible string that kept us tethered the entire time he was away and that's tightening now ...
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#18. It occurs to me, not for the first time, that things change whether you're around to notice them or not.
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#19. It occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much.
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#20. It rained a couple of hours ago - it rains every single day, world without end -
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#21. The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.
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#22. It's just really hard to remember your hometown isn't the only place in the world
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#24. It feels like we're circling something here, like maybe we both know where this is headed. Like maybe we sort of always have.
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#25. I couldn't figure out how you could go from feeling so close to a person one minute to not being sure if you even knew them the next.
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#26. I wasn't unpopular, exactly. I was just . . . unequipped.
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#27. Somehow this seems inevitable, the natural course of things. Maybe he's a homing pigeon. Maybe I'm his home.
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#28. I like how the implication there is that the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in me. Give me the car keys.
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#29. Kissing him feels familiar but also new, a song they haven't played on the radio in a really long time.
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#30. I loved ... the honest soul he kept hidden safe under all his bravado, and I loved how I was still, every day, learning him.
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#31. I imagine him grown up and finished with med school, patients lying on the operating table - reaching inside people's rib cages, fixing their broken hearts.
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#32. Wait, I almost shouted, but didn't, and that would be my burden to bear.
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#33. A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.
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#34. Jealousy made you vulnerable. Meanness just made you an ice queen.
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#36. I hate myself for letting him know that I still think about him, that I carry him around inside my skin.
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#37. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
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#38. Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.
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