Quotes by Kristan Higgins

“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.”

“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 f...”

“....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.”

“Forgiveness is difficult, she said, making me feel small-hearted and brittle. You dont have to trust Adam again, not right away, but it does mean you have to accept whats happened and start to take...”

“Book club meets every other month or so. Besides marriage counseling and the very occasional night out with my sister, Im home twenty-nine nights out of thirty, and still the girls resent me. Not o...”

“In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy. If you hear your husband farting in the bathroom seconds before he emerges and asks if you want to fool around, you generally dont want...”

“But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.”

“I don't get it, guys, I continued. I'd want to date me. Why is it so hard for me? I'm wicked fun, I dress nicely, I'm friendly... I'd love to date me. Wouldn't you?”

“Not everyone has to be in a relationship to feel good about themselves. Some people are better off on their own.”

“If onlythe saddest words in the English language.”

“I don't want to lose you, I love you, andand that's all I've got.As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings wentdifferent story.”

“She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.”

“When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.”

“The bewilderment is the worst part. Thats what they dont tell you in divorce articles. They talk about anger and loneliness and growing apart and starting over and being kind to yourself, but they ...”

“I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.”

“Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier.”

“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...”

“I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life]...”

“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 overcoo...”

“Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.”