The Happy Ever After Playlist Quotes
"The muscles involved felt weak from disuse, and for a heartbeat, just a flicker of a moment, I forgot what today was."
"This was why I never got up this early. Nothing but mayhem."
"I promised myself I wouldn’t cry today. I promised…"
"Was this what went on in Canoga Park at 9:00 a.m. on a Friday? Dogs running all willy-nilly in the streets?"
"He smiled with that lolled-out tongue, and I gave him a reproachful look."
"We’ll have to ride this one out on personality alone."
"Now I looked like I’d been in a fight with a raccoon over a pizza crust—and lost."
"My blond hair was pulled up in a messy bun that had been half yanked loose in the melee."
"You should have cried. Machine gun sobbing always gets me out of tickets."
"I wasn’t familiar with his breed. I forgot to ask the vet."
"It wouldn’t surprise me if he turned out to be half honey badger."
"And now he would be leaving me in a few weeks, and I felt panic at the thought of being alone again."
"Tucker changed me. I felt good. Better than I’d felt in ages, actually."
"The ceiling fan made a steady clicking noise above me while I waited."
"Sometimes the hardest place to live is the one in-between."
"Survival is all about going where there's the least threat of other humans and zombies."
"You’d be surprised at how warm the cabin gets once the fire gets going. And we could always share body heat."
"You’re right. Totally right. Admission into my survival compound is contingent upon a satisfactory comprehensive interview, illustration of survival skills, and a thorough physical."
"I see where you’re taking this, and it won’t work."
"I just couldn’t imagine being that sick and not having any options, you know? And maybe one day someone will do it for me. Or someone I love."
"Our gazes met, and she hit me like a ton of bricks. My body’s reaction to her was instantaneous. I could almost feel my pupils dilate as I took her in."
"Smart, funny, and now this. I’d won the fucking lottery."
"I allowed myself two heartbeats to stare at her before I tore my eyes away."
"The only sounds were the water still trickling out from under the sink and the thrumming of my heart in my ears."
"I’m glad you didn’t make things weird for our first appointment. Just a run-of-the-mill, no-stress, first-meeting flood."
"This place isn’t as crappy as I thought it was going to be."
"I wanted to take her home all right. I wanted to take her home and carry her into her bedroom."
"The imprint of her still lingered on my skin."
"I didn’t want to smell pavement. I wanted to smell her."
"I’m beginning to think the rules don’t apply to you."
"She’s a lyrical genius. I never met anyone that musically talented in my life."
"Well, to say I regret it at this point would be an understatement."
"It takes a woman six months to show you her crazy. Six months, my friend."
"Fame is a jealous mistress. She doesn’t like to share."
"I was a ghost, wandering the rooms of a museum of the person I used to be."
"You realize that repeatedly bringing me my favorite coffee is comparable to feeding a stray cat, right? You might never get rid of me now."
"You're worth the wait. You're worth everything."
"There's beauty in all seasons. Even if you are looking forward to the next one."
"Making her feel safe—and making sure she wanted me enough—it would all work itself out eventually."
"The only way that I dealt with this fact was by doing my best to forget it."
"He smiled at the road and I admired his profile from the side."
"He was thawing me from my nuclear winter from the outside in—and he was almost to my core."
"I wanted naked baby pictures of Jason before this weekend was out."
"No idea where it came from. Just a God-given gift."
"Of course. Who wouldn’t like an astronaut cat?"
"You make me insane. I can’t keep my hands off you."
"It was like my heart was split down the middle—I had one half and Sloan had the other."
"I was grateful that I’d been there for her through my music in her darkest hours."
"I’ll clean the sink. You won’t even know I was here."
"Are you satisfied with yourself? Look what you've done to us."
"I want you to know I’ve made arrangements for this because I’m a very thoughtful girlfriend."
"We won't know each other anymore, and we'll both be lonely, even though we're together."
"Sometimes even back then you couldn't find time to call me."
"I've always wanted to be the other woman for a few days."
"I've always wanted two women. This is working out for both of us."
"My heart could barely take it. I don’t think I could ever get used to him saying that."
"God, we were so adorable, even I could barely stand us."
"God, how does she do that every time? Knowing exactly what I’m up to within five seconds of seeing my face?"
"Go, have adventures, fall more in love, shake a tambourine, be a fucking groupie and say cliché shit like, ‘I’m with the band.’"
"I was ready to get serious about my art again. But I’d been bogged down with Etsy and astronaut cats so I hadn’t been able to actually attempt it."
"The disappointment hit me right in the heart."
"She didn’t take her face from her hands. 'I just need a minute to process this,' she said quietly."
"I felt like I’d taken an orchid on a road trip and it wasn’t thriving."
"Our fates were bound—what happened to him happened to me."
"I couldn’t keep doing the same things and expecting different results."
"There’s nothing that I want more than for you to be happy. Do you understand? I would do anything to make you happy."
"It’s an honor to be loved by him and it made all of this worth it, even though it was hard."
"I knew he carried around spare guitar picks to give to little kids who wanted autographs."
"My hands, my voice. My back to do your heavy lifting, my arms to carry you to bed when you’ve had too much tequila. My money, my time, my heart. It’s all yours, Sloan."
"I don’t want to hear you talking like that again. We’re not breaking up. How can you even suggest that?"
"My world was a bleeding watercolor in the rain."
"I had to go back. I wanted to fall asleep in his arms tonight and every night from now on."
"Home was wherever Jason was, and knowing this gave me the world’s biggest second wind."
"I will do whatever I have to do to help you."
"You can’t tell them where I am. They’ll send cameras."
"The price for being with me had officially become too high."
"This wasn’t some deranged fan that a few armed bodyguards and a house in a compound could take care of."
"My heart held the lie I was about to tell like a shot of poison I was braced to drink."
"I looked her in the eye. 'This wasn’t going to work out between us.'"
"The absence swallowed me whole and left nothing behind."
"The only thing I knew for sure was this: He didn’t love me."
"He’d broken every single promise he’d ever made me."
"All you can do is decide how much of you you’re going to let them take."
"Life without her was a sensory deprivation of my soul."
"All my joy in life had been drained out of me."
"When she peered around the room like she could tell I was broken and she didn’t want to stare at the cracks."
"She laughed a little. 'Someone smart once told me you can start over again. Start now.'"
"If the complete and total lack of butterflies in my stomach wasn’t depressing enough, I kept looking at the clock."
"She was willing to do it because she loved me, even though it meant making a lot of sacrifices."
"She was every love song I’ve never been good enough to write."
"My job is to help you with your crazy. Make you the best, most magnificent crazy you can be."
"They mate for life. They fall in love and they worship the ground that woman walks on. They don’t cheat and they don’t fucking leave."
"I loved him. Even now, after everything he’d put me through, I loved him."
"It was the most beautiful thing he’d ever written. It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard."
"I’d never said no, of course. But I’d made him wait a year to marry me. I didn’t want something rushed. I wanted a real wedding—and I’d kept my last name. I wanted my own identity."