Quotes from Beautiful Redemption

“I loved her first,” Thomas said. “But you, Liis…you are the last woman I will ever love.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Love isn’t about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“I lost someone I loved before, and it changed me. I gave up someone I loved before, and it crushed me. I know that when you leave, Liis, however it goes down...it will end me.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Don’t you know by now?” Thomas said, touching his lips to my hair. “It’s somewhere in the unforeseen when the best, most important moments of our lives seem to happen.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Thomas loved me. He needed me. Maybe I wasn’t the first woman he’d loved, and maybe the kind of love a Maddox man felt lasted forever, but I needed him, too. I wasn’t the first, but I would be the last. That didn’t make me the second prize. It made me his forever.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Your brother Trent. And Travis. And you’re Thomas. Who am I missing? Tiger and Toadstool?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“It’s somewhere in the unforeseen when the best, most important moments of our lives seem to happen.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“You must have voodoo in your hoohoo.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“You have to weigh the joy against the risk.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“As far as everyone is concerned, I'm in love with you today and tomorrow.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“You need to get one thing straight. I am not bossy. I'm the fucking boss.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“If I were going to give you my future, I’d need you to move on from the past.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Maybe, but we're the same, Liis. That's why it didn't work out with other people. I'm not going to let you run away, and you're not going to put up with my shit.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Lack finesse? I’m going to lack his finesse all over the fucking squad room. I covered my mouth even though I hadn’t sworn out loud. They might have a point.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“You think she’s been listening to Taylor Swift on her headphones in here?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“wasn’t the first, but I would be the last. That didn’t make me the second prize. It made me his forever.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Can’t you see through my bullshit by now?” “Can’t we just…I don’t know…say what we think or feel?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“I have motherfucking finesse. Just because I speak my mind means I'm not tactful?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Nothing was more frightening than being manipulated by my own heart.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“it. “I don’t mean to poke the bear, but I’ve got one nerve left, and Maddox is dry-humping it. So, could you all move it along?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Anthony pointed his finger, swirling tiny invisible circles in the air. “You must have voodoo in your hoohoo.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“What's worse is the louder I am, the less they hear.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“Your observations aren't always correct. Sometimes, things go deeper than what you see on the surface.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“What the fuck is that?” Thomas asked. “Oh! It’s Toto! I’m babysittin’,”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“He's not an ogre. Actually, at this point, he might think I'm the ogre.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“That I would have to be careful. I lost someone I loved before, and it changed me. I gave up someone I loved before, and it crushed me. I know that when you leave, Liis, however it goes down…it will end me.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“The reasons leading to the origin of the problem aren't always simple, but the solution always is.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

“We’d had to find each other to finally understand that love could not be controlled. Predictions, assumptions, and absolutes were illusions. My love for him was volatile, uncontrollable, and overpowering, but…that was love. Love was real.”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption

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