A Deal With The Devil Quotes
"Sometimes the bad guy is hiding a heart of gold under that scarred exterior."
"Real life is more complex. Sometimes they both have a nice jawline and you often don’t know what you’ve signed on for until it’s too late."
"First, because he’s a plastic surgeon to the stars, which is exactly the kind of job you’d expect of Satan, were Satan for some reason unable to practice law."
"My superpower, acquired over the course of this very difficult year, is that I’m immune to beautiful men."
"Saying I’m the perfect choice is like setting up a sixteen-year-old boy with a ninety-year-old female and insisting it’s perfect because they’re both straight."
"You’d think so," he says, rising to leave, "but that’s because I haven’t told you what my dad did."
"I didn’t realize, at the time, that I was writing about me and Matt, that the small ways he changed when we got to New York bothered me far more than I was willing to admit."
"I’ve had Matt’s words in my head for so long, telling me I only got the book deal because of him. Telling me I’m never going to finish."
"He’s every bit as bad as I’d imagined at the start, and yet…he isn’t."
"I’ll still have lots of money, which matters far more to women."
"Half of adulthood is pretending to have your shit together when you clearly don’t."
"I’m not going to turn into yet another pathetic female fetishizing the Hayes Flynn experience."
"There are things in this world more satisfying than money."
"You have the purest face I’ve ever seen in my life."
"Everyone who’s met the two of you already knows. Jonathan said, and I quote, ‘Matt’s the stupidest SOB who ever lived. He’s never going to do better than Tali.’"
"Because I’d be jealous as hell if I were him."
"My mother says I’m loveable once you get to know me."
"You excel at making leisure time sound dull."
"I’d never even met Matt and I knew he couldn’t do better than you."
"You’re attractive and smart, which is a rarer combination than you might think."
"You don’t have to do everything alone, you know."
"I don’t want to still be this version of myself in seven years."
"I’m not scared of time off. I just don’t need it."
"You didn’t sound like a little girl, that’s the problem. You sounded like a very big girl in need of..."
"I thought she was the loveliest thing I’d ever seen in my life, so I followed her."
"It’s just after six, the sky a symphony of muted rose and gold and dusky blue."
"I’m so smitten from the minute we walk in that I want to spin in place."
"Forget about your mattress. I’m marrying this house instead."
"I can eat a lot of pie in forty-eight hours."
"Normal people probably don’t leave a store with seventeen boxes of Pop-Tarts."
"It doesn’t matter. He was my patient, and I told him he’d be fine."
"And look at these," he says, holding up something claiming to be a healthy breakfast food that looks a lot like a Snickers bar. "Perhaps normal life isn’t so bad."
"If you don’t want Ella back, does the money really matter that much?"
"It’s all for the best. I make ten times what I would in pediatrics."
"I’m having fun, Tali," he says softly. "For some reason complaining to you about things I don’t actually mind is just my favorite thing to do."
"Would it all have gone wrong anyway, or did it really just hinge on that single event?"
"You’d knowingly choose to make a young child suffer on an uninhabited island solely for your amusement?"
"Even if you don’t trust men," she whispers, "this one’s a keeper."
"I’ve thought about nothing but this for twenty-four hours," he says between his teeth.
"I’m crying because this is the end of what I had here with Hayes, and it just feels so fucking unfair."
"I swallow. ‘A long time,’ I reply. ‘At least until Charlotte’s in college next year.’"
"‘Because I don’t want help,’ I reply. I wanted it to feel like we were equals, which seems laughable now."
"Love is handing your fragile heart to someone else because you want him to have it, no matter what he’ll do in response."
"‘I’m so in love with you it terrifies me,’ he says. ‘And you’re the only thing that’s mattered for quite a while now.’"
"It’s not going to work out with him but I’m...not in a good place right now. It’s made coming home a lot harder than I expected."
"‘It doesn’t matter what the ring looks like,’ I reply."
"I thought maybe they already knew I’m a human being with wants and needs of my own, but apparently that has to be pointed out."
"‘I’ve been in love with you, I think, since the day I saw you reading in the rain as you walked into work,’ he says."