Best Better Than The Movies Quotes by Lynn Painter

"Nobody finds their soul mate when they’re ten. I mean, where’s the fun in that, right?"

"You’re not as vile as I thought you were."

"You’re late." "You’re stunning." "You’re forgiven."

"I’ve been searching a long time, For someone exactly like you."

"Every time I see a cheesy movie on TV, I think of Little Liz."

"So tell me what’s happened since I moved."

"He was supposed to be my fate, dammit, and now Laney would have him in her clutches before I got my foot-popping kiss."

"I just mean did he say it like he was disgusted, or, like… like he thought it was maybe kind of cool?"

"If it were another guy, I might have just given up and called projectile vomiting a cosmic sign."

"Honestly, the thought of it made my heart feel a little pinched."

"You’re so quiet, Buxbaum. Makes me a little terrified of what you’re thinking."

"That’s right, fashion advice. Etcetera."

"I’ve got it. I’ve got a brilliant plan."

"Don’t forget to wash your dirty uniform before your next shift."

"Just because she likes the same bizarro crap you do doesn’t mean she’s your soul mate."

"When I’m around you, I kind of feel like I’m on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case, I do them all the time. All of them."

"I think I see you with headphones on more often than not."

"You should maybe straighten your hair for tonight."

"I don’t need you to take me to the hospital. I’ll call my dad."

"You don’t seriously think his fingertippiness was a thing, do you?"

"I think you’re making this way more of a thing than it is."

"I can’t believe your ridiculous plan is working."

"I just need to know that happily ever after really exists."

"I thought you’d say ‘cancer stick,’ but the rest I got right."

"I’m sorry. I didn’t know that your mom was there or I never would’ve followed you inside."

"I’m having no trouble fighting the feels, you nice little weirdo."

"I’d rather fight with you than make love with anyone else."

"Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind."

Whoa." He gave his head a little shake. "First of all, I had no idea that was a thing. But second—that is the perfect job for you. Holy shit, you already do that all the time.

Yep." I took another bite of my s’more and licked off the marshmallow dripping onto my fingers. "And you have no idea; I have shelves full of soundtrack notebooks. I cannot wait to get started.

"Damn." He gave me a serious look that I felt in my belly. His voice was so deep in the dark of the Secret Area that anything other than silliness felt intimate. "You’ve always kind of done your own thing, Liz, and it’s cool as shit."

"Thank you so much, Wessy, for entertaining me with your inane conversation while we eat. This is definitely not boring."

"Libby?" My head whipped around at the sound of my dad’s voice. There he was, standing in the clearing in his pajama pants and DINKER’S HAMBURGERS T-shirt, looking at me as if I were break-dancing naked on top of the fire.

"If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around."

"He had kissed her long and good. We got banned from the pool forever that day, but every time we walked by after that, the lifeguard looked down from her tower, right over at Squints, and smiled."

"Nice boys don’t kiss like that."
"Oh, yes, they fucking do."

"I felt more relaxed just by admitting it to myself. Because really—why was I forcing it? Michael wasn’t the one—no big, right?"

"Sometimes we get so tied up in our idea of what we think we want that we miss out on the amazingness of what we could actually have."

"I mean, he’s great, but being with him is nothing like eating burgers with you, or sneaking out to the Secret Area to make s’mores and look at the stars, or fighting with you over a parking space."

"And then there were Helenas—smart, irreverent women who had no idea how to play the piano or tend to a rose garden, but they were always there, just waiting for you to realize you needed them."

"I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn your cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you."

"Because the thought of Wes being pissed at Michael—and jealous—over me, was just too wonderful. ‘But it does. It’s just so swoony.’"