Kami Huff > Kami's Quotes

“There are some things you can't undo no matter how good your intentions are.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“That’s hot.” I mean it as a joke, but my voice comes out like a growl and when her lips part I kiss her before she can laugh. A shock of energy shoots through me as I cup her face in my hands, my fingers grasping her cheeks and the line of her jaw. It must be the adrenaline that’s making my heart pound so fast. The whole nobody-else-could-possibly-understand-this bond. Or maybe it’s her soft lips and green apple–scented hair, and the way she winds her arms around my neck like she can’t stand to let go. Either way I keep kissing her as long as she lets me, and when she steps away I try to pull her back because it wasn’t enough.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“No one is likable from the inside out.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Don’t focus on why you’re playing the game. Just focus on the finish line.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“As much as I try to forget where it all started to go wrong, I was cursed with this mind that never forgets a single thing.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“One more chapter and I’ll stop. That’s it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Was it my destiny from the beginning to suffer such a tragic end? Or is my tragic end a result of poor choices rather than fate?”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Faces change with life's toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She'd given love a chance; now she wanted simply to fill the empty spaces. Ease the loneliness while walling off her heart.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I am fun! I just don’t want to talk about what keeps me awake at night. I don’t want to reveal how I’m beginning to question whether climbing the ladder has made me happy, how sometimes I long to write but can’t seem to find the courage, or how lonely I sometimes feel.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“You’re still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“I pay attention to a lot of things about you, Percy Fraser.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“Sometimes I felt sure he was—like there was an invisible, unbreakable string that ran between us, stretching vast distances and keeping us joined.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“I did want you. I do want you. I've always wanted you.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“Some people are lucky like that. They meet their best friend, the love of their life, and are wise enough to never let go.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“I loved you so much that the word 'love' didn't seem big enough for how I felt.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“I always help. I can never, ever walk away, even when I should.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“The last thing I see when I leave the bedroom is Wendy standing over Douglas’s dead body. And she’s smiling.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Although isn’t there another side to everyone?”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Sometimes he seemed to understand me better than I understood myself.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“It’s funny. When it’s right, you just know it’s right.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid's Secret

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt... it's all part of being in love.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I don’t want to forget any of this. The way he’s looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“To love a boy, to have him love you back. It feels miraculous.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Peter puts one arm around my waist, pulls me in, and, looking down at me, he says fiercely, "Neither of us wants to break up. So why should we? Because of some shit my mom said? Because your sister did it that way? You're not the same as your sister, Lra Jean. We're not the same as Margot and Sanderson or anybody else. We're you and me. And yeah, it's gonna be hard. But Lara Jean, I've never feel for another girl what I feel for you." He says it with all the certainty only a teenage boy can have, and I have never loved him more than at this very moment.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean