Brown-Eyed Girl Quotes
"The first rule for dealing with emergencies was: Don’t panic."
"Usually the venom wouldn’t kill you, but for the first couple of minutes after you’d been stung, you might wish it had."
"A scorpion can hold its breath for up to a week."
"People get married for all kinds of wrong reasons: infatuation, fear of being alone, unplanned pregnancy."
"It’s only going to work for as long as you and Sloane both want it to. For as long as you’re both willing to keep your promises."
"But somewhere inside, I still believe in the fairy tale. Not for myself, but for other people."
"Everyone’s got a past. It’s the future that counts."
"You need to let go of the life you have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for you."
"Wonderful. Now, tell me quickly—everyone doing okay there? Your sister?"
"You put all the takeout menus in color-coded folders, and stacked all the magazines in order of their dates. Even for you, that’s too much."
"Why are you making such a big deal out of it?"
"Because I’m tired of seeing you dressed like a Viking nanny. And so is everyone else."
"No way," I said. "No contacts. I have a problem with touching my eyeballs."
"You could just be honest with him," she suggested.
"I finally started to doze just as the alarm sounded."
"If I ever get arrested," I said, "you will be my one phone call."
"Because the Travises set quite a store by normalcy."
"We went out to play golf. I hated golf. Old-man sport."
"There’s no method’s a hundred percent except abstinence."
"The way to earn a surefire killing was to do something mean to Haven—kidnap one of her dolls or scare her with a spider—Gage would come after us like the wrath of God."
"Once Dad put his foot down, there was no changing his mind. I think when he’d had a chance to think about it, he was sorry about having made the job that big. But he couldn’t back down. To him, changing his mind was a weakness."
"It’s hard to keep a gesture like that secret."
"The important thing to remember is not to approach a dog directly and step into his space. He’ll see that as a threat."
"Everyone has secrets they don’t want anyone to know."
"The point of family: They have to tolerate you anyway."
"You can’t call me names and not tell me what they mean."
"Sometimes you have to take a chance on letting someone in, because your gut tells you that person’s worth it."
"You spend most of your time planning one wedding after another. Some part of you believes in it."
"The kind of sex that lays you out, owns you, leaves you too shaky to pour your morning coffee."
"It’s time for you to wake up with a man in your bed."
"Because I knew that if I started, I wouldn’t be able to stop. You may have noticed that I have trouble putting on the brakes with you."
"Since you’re already occupying some of my head space, we might as well sleep together."
"I’m going to want things that are hard for you to give. It’ll be different from the first time."
"I’ve missed you. I missed talking to you at night and hearing about your day, and telling you about mine."
"I’m not suffering. And I want to stay, as long as it’s okay with you."
"You’re not an outsider. But you don’t have to suffer in a hospital waiting room just because I’m here."
"I can’t see any room in that life for me, or for kids."
"I’ve got someone right here who knows how to have a good time."