Twice Shy Quotes
"I am up in the clouds now, drumming my fingernails on a countertop."
"Maybell's Coffee Shop AU is the most beautiful place I can imagine, and I've imagined lots of places."
"This is the moment I've been waiting for all my life."
"Our love is a force too powerful to be defied."
"Really, the only bad thing about Jack McBride is that he doesn’t exist."
"You don’t amass too many worldly possessions when you work for minimum wage and you’ve spent most of your life with someone who helped themselves to whatever you had."
"The only thing I can think to do is to pull out my phone."
"You’re a rock in my shoe. An out-of-order bathroom stall. A traffic jam. A loose handful of gumballs in a trick-or-treat bucket."
"My run of good luck has already run its course."
"I can't believe the same Violet Hannobar who wouldn't let anyone walk through the house with their shoes on became the Violet who lived in this mess."
"I make the questionable decision to keep going, because surely it can’t be like this everywhere."
"A voice screams, 'Bop it!' in the demon-possessed snarl that could only be produced by dying batteries, and I scream right back."
"The shining apple of Aunt Violet’s eye, with fancy double ovens for double the desserts, has fallen victim to the hoard monster."
"I feel like a glamorous movie star in my tinted lip balm and glittery nail polish, smelling of Love’s Baby Soft perfume."
"Six fingers are adorned in heavy jewels that, she tells me, out the side of her mouth like she doesn’t want anybody to overhear, her siblings would gladly kill her to get their hands on."
"I did not have ‘colossal hoard’ on my bingo card."
"Being delusional is our downfall but it’s also our saving grace: we’re deluded enough that we don’t see why tomorrow shouldn’t be better, even if the last thousand days in a row have been bad."
"Victor begged her to go out with him again. She dangled him on her hook for a month, but of course gave in, and eventually they got married on Starr Mountain in the middle of a thunderstorm—secretly, since they weren’t legally allowed."
"I’m not getting into the two-inheritors mess—she’ll suggest I take him to court, which Violet wouldn’t have wanted."
"So touching I could melt, lasting evidence of love that’s survived them both."
"What would it be like, to know love like that? To carve my name on someone else’s heart?"
"Between one footstep and the next, I disappear from the woods and rematerialize in my own little world."
"When here I’m equipped with omniscience to kill the unknown in its cradle, and am the architect of every heart and every heart’s intention."
"Those who care less always have the upper hand."
"The essence of Maybell Parrish is painfully sensitive, and if you touched it, it would retract and try to surrender."
"But even though my idea is only a few hours old, it is burning up in me like a fire demon."
"I’m being thorough. What would Violet say if she saw you treating her belongings like this? So callous."
"I don’t think I’ve appreciated the irony until now, easing the gloves over my fingers, that I’m being forced into taking up the housekeeper role again."
"It’s freaky empty up there. Even your thoughts would echo."
"Conservation is more important than the useless aesthetics of neat hedges."
"Everything I know about baseball can be traced back to that scene from Twilight."
"If I could read auras, I think Wesley’s would be black as the night sky right now."
"Everyone with a yard should designate a natural growth area, to be honest. Put up a small fence around it and just let—"
"Not by yourself," he says. "I’d help you paint it. We’ll put some gold touches around the windows and doors, too, like the way the light hits it here."
"Why do you sound so terrifying when you say that?"
"It’s tradition to do everything the hard way."
"I’ve got willpower. I am resolving myself here and now to keep my distance, which should be easy enough."
"I’d be the least safe in his hands: What if we dated and it went south, as most relationships do? We share a house! Neither of us wants to give it up."
"I’ve got to stamp out those feeble quiverings now, before they become a problem."
"You don’t like him," I tell myself sternly. "He’s a grouch."
"Think long-term, Maybell. Priorities. Eyes on the prize."
"I open the dumbwaiter longingly and despair that it’s empty."
"I definitely didn’t put all these ferns here."
"We’re all out of toast. And secret babies. You can have a donut. We serve donuts."
"Sometimes I’m grouchy because I’m part cactus."
"Nothing could have prepared me for this panic, this flustered, thrilling, scary spiral."
"I have absolutely no business letting myself visualize what he’s doing in there, but I do."
"I think, that I know how I’m going to die now. Not everybody knows."
"Inner peace is only a heartbeat away, an irresistible invitation."
"The only reason I was able to admit it is because you’re so easy to talk to. It feels like you... Like you pay attention."
"I’m not used to feeling the world at such close range, having an effect on my environment, present in my own life."
"You’re cute when you’re mad. Like that movie with the duck who says the sky is falling? Have you seen that one? That’s what you remind me of, and when you’re mad it’s hilarious."
"I think about you, and it doesn’t help my insomnia at all."
"Anyone can hurt me, but at this point choosing to miss out on what could be is going to hurt me, too."
"I stayed at a job I hated, that didn’t appreciate me, for too many years because I was scared of giving it up for the unknown."
"But I quit my old job, and my life got better. I moved here, and my life got better."
"I think I have been waiting all my life for a man who says I understand and genuinely does."
"Hotels are easy to run in the abstract, when you’re daydreaming about them but still have plenty of time before the real work begins."
"I can do this. I’m going to prove to the world that I can do this."
"We’re weeds growing out of the cracks in concrete: even when we should have been defeated long ago, you can’t keep us down."
"I love your smile," I prattle. "You smile so much more now than you did when I met you."
"When you smile, people look at you more. I prefer to blend in. For nobody to notice me."
"It’s impossible not to notice you. I would know a Wesley in a room full of imitations. I’d know a Wesley anywhere."
"I’ve got so much coming up in the next few weeks: his brother will be visiting before we know it to discuss investing in us, I’ll be meeting Sasha Campos in hopes that she’s going to join me in my new adventure."
"I feel more than accepted when he touches me, when he holds me and smiles at me. I feel wanted."
"It's like heroes in an action movie ignoring explosions going off behind them."
"You wanted me to forgive you because you didn't want to have to feel guilty anymore. Wanting to be forgiven isn't the same as being remorseful."
"At thirty years old, I am finally accepting that I am simply nobody else but myself. I will always only be me."
"I am on a rocky shore overlooking a loch in the Scottish Highlands, yet another impossible-sounding statement I've made within the past couple of months."
"I’ve buckled myself in, held on to this note like a lifeline, and soon enough I was up in the air and everything was out of my control. No chance to escape."
"You ever think you were single for no reason and then you meet someone and realize you’ve been waiting for them without knowing it?"
"Life is starting to look less like going with the flow and more like steering the boat."
"I am seen. I am heard. Understood. Somebody knows that I am here, and it matters to them."
"The passionate kiss that follows the declaration of love is the essential ingredient to every romance to ensure it bakes properly."
"To my fellow anxious people: you are wonderful and you are lovable just the way you are."