“Sometimes people would rather accept a lie than know the truth. Life is a whole lot easier to swallow that way.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“He looked like he wanted to eat you."
With that, I throw my head back and laugh. "That man has no problem finding a meal. I highly doubt he's starving."
She scrunches her nose to show me she doesn't agree. "Well, maybe he just spotted something new on the menu. You know men and their food; they have to try a little bit of everything until they're completely satisfied.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Life isn't always predictable. But it's how we survive the bad weather that defines us.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“The moment romance got involved, everything changed … and I mean everything.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“I let it come to this, and I can only take responsibility for my own mistakes. Unfortunately, I've made a lot of them.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“I could always see him for all that he was—for all that he is. Perfect.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Gavin doesn't pull away and I'm grateful for his comfort, but I also know this thing between us—what's always been between us—is wrong.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“All I wanted was to follow my heart, but somehow along the way I lost my soul.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Our friendship was like glass, fragile and irreplaceable. One moment of weakness … one mistake … and it might have shattered completely. Our friendship was worth too much to me to risk even the slightest crack.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“It's hard to be around Gavin and not get little hot flashes every now and then. I'm having an episode now ...”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Chloe has always had a serious effect on my heart, but lately . . . she's stolen pieces of it, bit by bit. Or maybe she's had them all along.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“My world stops at the sight of her ... it's as if I've been looking at Chloe through a two-way mirror this entire time—aware of her, always feeling her presence, but never allowing myself to break through the barrier.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Chloe doesn't move right away even though I've stepped to the side to allow her to pass. When she finally does, it's as if she's stealing my air as she goes. She's so damn beautiful.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“You were staring out at the horizon, telling me it was the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen, and I was staring at you thinking the exact same thing.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Well"—I place my hands on my hips—"aren't you going to sketch me?" I twirl slowly, allowing him to take in the entire outfit. Before I'm even facing him again he's moving toward me, then grabbing me by the hips and pulling me against his hard body. My heart is trying to catch up to his eagerness as we fall onto the bed.
"I've done all the practice sketches I can handle.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“I don't think we're allowed to call this friendship spooning anymore”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“The liquid seeping through my system instantly turns to fire, and it burns like the flames of guilt that have consumed me for so long.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“When she left she took a piece of me with her—and it wasn't until she returned that I realized just how big that piece was.
I want it back.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Her beauty radiated from her core and touched every morsel of her exterior … and it only seems to have gotten better with age.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“When someone has already made their choice, you just have to be smart enough to know they made it and have the strength to walk away.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“When a girl gives you her heart and tells you to trust it, you don't question it. You don't waste a second. You just do it.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
K.K. Allen
Born place: in Honolulu, The United States
Born date March 31, 2018
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“And I know that apology is for so many things. For what can never be. For what should be. For hurting me. For not being the person I need him to be. For not being able to confront whatever is in his past.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Driven
“Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.”
― James W. Loewen, quote from Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“And in short, I was afraid.”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from Collected Poems, 1909-1962
“Hey, I have a weird question,” I said. “What does it mean if a guy calls you ‘bang tidy’?”
Marna snorted. “Sounds like something a dirty wanker would say. Or someone pissing about.”
Now it was my turn to snort, because she’d called Kai a wanker.”
― Wendy Higgins, quote from Sweet Peril
“She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.”
― Paolo Giordano, quote from The Solitude of Prime Numbers
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