Amber Lin > Quotes

“Allie,” he said. “You told me once I had a white-knight complex. You said I saved you.”
He was going to say I saved him. It was going to be so romantic.
“But the truth is,” he said, “I didn’t save you—I stole you. I wanted you and I knew I didn’t deserve you, but I didn’t care. And for some reason it seems like you
don’t either, so it seems to me that I should make it permanent before you come to your senses. Will you marry me?”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“It was a rather dark shade of gray, his declaration, but I didn't think I'd ever heard anything more romantic than Colin telling me he'd spend his money, break laws, do anything he had to, to give me what I wanted.”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“My mind took up a chant. Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me. Make me hurt, cry, bleed. Make my outside match my inside. Help me get it out, because I can't cry on my own”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“what she really wanted to say was, Be near me. Be near me so that I can be near you.”
― Amber Lin, How To Say Goodbye

“wouldn’t believe me. I’d take the words—the confession, the shame—and bury them deep. So deep no one could ever hear them. Not even me. Shelly heard them, though. Her expression turned cold. “I’ll kill him.” My heart clenched. I hated him for what he did. But I loved him as my friend, the one who’d hung out every afternoon and made me smile when my dad hadn’t been back in months. Most of all, I understood him—more than I wanted to. I knew what went on at his house, even if he’d never actually told me. We were all broken, and we turned on each other with”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“Led Zeppelin! I clapped my hand over my mouth.
This big, strong man, wearing a muscle shirt and cargo pants, sang rock songs to a toddler in the middle of the night. I was so toast. Game over. And it was doubly terrifying, considering I had no idea how to make him stick around. He would leave and take his sweetness and his Pepto and our hearts.”
― Amber Lin

“He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.”
― Amber Lin, Falling For The Pirate

“You hold up the stars,” he whispered. “And the planets. And everything.”
― Amber Lin, How To Say Goodbye

“Prologue I hugged my knees and stared at the strip of plastic on my bed. A small part of my brain knew it was weird to have it on the comforter, something I’d peed on. The rest of me was too busy freaking out to care. One night I’d rather forget. The word no said and ignored. A little plus sign in an oval window. The dominoes fell, one after the other, leading to this… Pregnant. “Maybe it’s wrong,” Shelly whispered, her eyes wide. It took”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“If something was going to leave him, better that he watch it fly away whole rather than let it die in his company. He”
― Amber Lin, How To Say Goodbye

“comforter, something I’d peed on. The rest of me was too busy freaking out to care. One night I’d rather forget. The word no said and ignored. A little plus sign in an oval window. The dominoes fell, one after the other, leading to this… Pregnant. “Maybe it’s wrong,” Shelly whispered, her eyes wide. It took a lot to shock my best friend, but this had done it. Her face was pale, body as tense and still as mine. I shook my head. “I’ve missed my period twice now.” Her blue eyes questioned me. “I thought you two weren’t…” Of course she guessed”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“It had been a lie on that park bench. I like you, he’d said back, when what he’d really meant was, I love you. You’re the only one. Stay with me.”
― Amber Lin, How To Say Goodbye

“Of course she guessed who the father was. Andrew. He’d been my other best friend. And definitely the only boy I would have trusted with my virginity. Only, I hadn’t trusted him. Or just hadn’t liked him that way. And trust? That had turned out to be a mistake.”
― Amber Lin, Giving It Up

“His laugh burst around her, like clouds into rain, breaking the storm. “My sweet girl. My practical, crazy girl. Love you.”
― Amber Lin, Chance of Rain

“The thought of you pregnant is hotter than a blacktop in August.” His hand fitted over the softness of her belly. “Filled with my seed. My wife. Mine.” He cupped her breast, swiping her nipple with his thumb. “Swollen here, damp with milk.”
― Amber Lin, Chance of Rain

“Time for a new plan. She would remain very still until he’d gone inside. He wouldn’t notice her. Eventually, someone else would find her”
― Amber Lin, Letters At Christmas