Top 100 Kristan Higgins Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Schizophrenic, alternating as it served her purposes between
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#3. Shake hands, kids," Jack said. "Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat." He grinned up at her. "I feel very humble, don't you?
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#4. 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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#5. I also promise to let you help name any baby your mom and me might have-"
"Mistake. We'll have a kid named Chewbacca.
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#6. 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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#7. I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. I knock cheerfully on the super's door - shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits!
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.
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#14. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.
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#19. 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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#20. Just once, I'd love to be heartbroken because someone loved me and left me, instead of heartbroken because I never got on that train at all.
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#21. One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.
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#22. 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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#23. every day takes you further from the time he was alive, slicing you with the razor-sharp realization that those days would never be celebrated again.
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#24. It's just that sometimes you love a kid just because they need it. Not because they deserve it, not because you really like them ... just because they need love.
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#25. I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.
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#26. What's more appealing than a guy who gets down on his knees and lets your dog lick his face?
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#27. The third boat was quite pretty, too ... this one was an Adirondack fishing boat, and even though it was only half finished, I could picture Jay Gatsby in it, casting a line over the side while he yearned for that shallow tramp, Daisy.
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#28. 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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#29. She gave another eye roll and glided away. My admiration for my sister grew. One thing to have children ... another to keep them when they hit adolescence.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. He had the kind of looks that made breathing irrelevant
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#33. Maybe love isn't just
a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when
you're tired.
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#34. 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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#35. my phone rings. I sense my hard-won optimism is about to get a smackdown. The Angel of Death, also known as my mother, Lenore Tate, long-suffering widow and professional pessimist.
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#36. Sometimes our hearts just need time to accept what are heads already know
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#37. He'd drop by her place later, see if she was still up. If not, he'd stare at her window, because why not, right? He was stupid with love. No shame in that
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#38. It's not you. The stupidest line in the history of lines.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. I've made up boyfriends too' Karen said, nodding her head slowly. 'The best man I ever dated was all in my head' 'Thank you!' I exclaimed.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#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. I'm trying not to wet myself with excitement," I murmur back. "It's harder after having the triplets.
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#50. proudly living in a refrigerator-sized apartment with three other students.
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#51. 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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#52. I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous.
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#53. Dearly beloved," Father Bruce began, "we are gathered here to witness the union of Nick and Harper as they pledge their love an devotion to each other for what we hope is the last time, because I don't know about you people, but I don't think any of us should have to go through this again.
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#54. Malone is surly, scary and ugly," I say. "So I'm gonna pass on him, if you don't mind." "I don't know," Chantal says. She looks past me. "What do you say, Malone? Want to go out with Maggie?
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#55. Oh, let's see. Judy came to see me at work today," Ainsley said. "To beg me not to give up on Eric just yet. She thinks he's got PTSD." I thought he had asshole-itis, personally.
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#56. The band had morphed into another sweet melancholy song. "I'm Not Supposed To Love You Anymore." If that wasn't the voice of God, I didn't know what was.
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#57. Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.
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#58. I've found that if you expect the best of a person," Frank told him once, "you generally get it." "What happens when you don't?" Lucas asked. "Live and learn. Emphasis on learn.
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#59. I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#64. And because he loved her, it wouldn't matter that she wasn't twenty-two or thirty or forty anymore. In his eyes she was truly the most beautiful woman in the world. The thought brought tears to Parker's eyes. A sucker for love indeed.
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#65. Okay, we get it, Jodi-with-an-i," I said, smiling pleasantly up at her. "You have an adorable son and
are still quite available. Dennis, however, is with me. If you would just take your boobs out of my
boyfriend's face, I would deeply appreciate it.
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#67. 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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#68. Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All
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#69. 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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#70. She wondered if he could see himself in a mirror. If he sparkled.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. If only ... the saddest words in the English language.
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#76. 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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#77. Like the locked room upstairs? Listen. I've read Jane Eyre. That better be a red room of pain up there, and not your ex-wife.
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#78. 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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#79. And here I still think of you as the woman I loved more than I've ever loved anyone
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#80. Don't ever marry a man who loves his work more than he loves you.
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#81. But if someone calls me 'poor thing' one more time, I may go postal and kill everyone around me. Except children and dogs. And old people. And you. And Connor. Fine, I won't kill anyone. But it's driving me crazy.
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#83. The walk of shame, please. It was the walk of pride today.
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#84. Everyone makes mistakes. It's what you do after the mistake that matters.
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#86. 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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#88. 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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#89. There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!
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#90. Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.
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#91. For twelve years, I've been trying to make him just one of the guys. He's not.
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#92. I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.
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#93. When things went right, it was generally because the woman had cleverly manipulated the guy into good dating behavior. He'd call when he said he would. Put some thought into dates. He'd ask questions about her life because she didn't vomit up all her personal history in the first ten minutes.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. Men didn't feel the same way women did about sex. They'd take it when offered, same as they wouldn't pass up a cookie warm from the oven. No, it was the women who counted calories and fell in love.
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#97. And so I make a pact with the devil, or in this case, my mommy.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. An ass lift? At eighty-two? I plan on proudly letting my ass drag when I'm eighty-two. I sure as hell wouldn't -
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