“I studied her face as she got closer. Who wore that much makeup this early in the morning? She looked like she got smacked in the face by a drunk rainbow.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Brody, are you sick?" asked Piper.
"Yeah, do you have a fever?" Lucy asked, tugging on my shirt.
I bent down to her level as she felt my forehead. "Nope, not sick. Why?"
They looked at each other and shrugged.
"Mom was on the phone with Auntie Alexa and she said you were hot. If you're hot, you have a fever. Do you need medicine?”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Tommy would never look at me like that, except maybe if I were walking toward him butt naked carrying a heaping plate of bacon.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“His nose holes are opening and closing,” Piper responded, making a gross face.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Any physical contact with her was a bonus. She could give me a noogie and I’d consider it a win.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Kacie, look at me. You can do this, trust me.” “I can’t.” I meant that literally. I couldn’t will my feet to move even if I wanted them to. “Look in my eyes. Yes, you can. You said you trusted me, now come on. Jump in puddles with me.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“I’ve loved you since that night out on the pier when we looked up at the stars, then I fell in love with you again the next day when you peeked at the sunset from the top of the Ferris wheel, then I fell in love with you again when I saw you in that blue dress, then I fell in love with you again on my kitchen counter, then I fell in love with you again at the cake tasting, then I fell in love with you again at Lauren’s wedding, then I fell in love with you again in that hospital room when you stared at your daughter lying unconscious in that bed…”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“She clearly had some deep scars and should be easy to walk away from, but instead of running the other direction I wanted to scoop her up, clean her off and make her world good again.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Life is a sum made up of small parts, Kacie. Some are good; some are bad. You and the girls are definitely one of the good. The best good there is and I’ll fight like hell to keep you here.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“There’s a saying … I don’t remember it exactly, but something about how having kids is like allowing your heart to walk around outside of your body. It’s so true.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“People can’t run marathons. Marathons are when the same show is on TV all day long.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Oh shit!” She tried to scramble off my lap, but I caught her hips and held her still. “What?” “The French toast, it’s gonna burn!” “Fuck it.” I waved toward the kitchen. “Let it burn, I’m more interested in something else French right now.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“You were so scared, Kacie, just like you are about life. I wanted you to see that sometimes, even when something terrifies you, if you just give it a chance it’s actually pretty incredible.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Um, I don’t know.”
“That’s not the answer I was hoping for. I was looking for something more along the lines of: ‘Why yes, Brody, I’d love to spend the weekend at your house having copious amounts of crazy, sweaty monkey sex.’”
Silence”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“His left hand rested on the island to my right, while his other hand purposely grazed my elbow as he leaned in, reaching for the bag of chocolate chips and pinning my hips to the island. “Just thought I’d help you make pancakes.” His taunting tone was husky with underlying meaning as he bent down, his lips nearly touching mine. “My specialty is licking . . . the spoon when you’re done.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“DRESS CASUAL. WEAR THAT LITTLE BLACK NUMBER. K: WHAT BLACK NUMBER? THE ONE YOU WERE WEARING IN THE BATHROOM WHEN PIPER OPENED THE DOOR. K: ASS :) Oh, I see you’re back again, smiley face. I hope you’re ready to get your ass kicked this time. I’m gonna turn that one eye into a wink if it kills me.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“The corners of his eyes crinkled as he smiled and nodded once at me. “Good, cause this lake is pretty deep out there in the middle, and I have a lot of old weights from my military days just laying around, looking for a new purpose.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“That man is scorching hot, and I’m assuming his southern hemisphere is pretty heavily populated, if you know what I mean,” she said, wiggling her eyebrows up and down.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“CHAT. WANNA HANG WITH ME AT THE SHOP TONIGHT? The black and white words of Alexa’s text blurred together”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“I love you too, Brody. Completely.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“She nudged my shoulder without letting go of my hand. Any physical contact with her was a bonus. She could give me a noogie and I’d consider it a win.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Catastrophe cliff,” she repeated. “Tommy and I learned about it in counseling. Basically, it just means that you are always on edge, waiting for the worst that can possibly happen to actually happen, though more than likely it never does.” “Oh”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Who wore that much makeup this early in the morning? She looked like she got smacked in the face by a drunk rainbow.”
― Beth Ehemann, quote from Room for You
“Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from Because of Winn-Dixie
“It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., quote from A Canticle for Leibowitz
“There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from Dreamfever
“They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.”
― John Green, quote from An Abundance of Katherines
“Ready?"
Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles.
"Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that."
Amusement softened his eyes.
"I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added.
Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, quote from Finale
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