Eileen > Eileen's Quotes

“Sushi arrives, and it’s not until halfway through the meal that I notice him using his fork to eat instead of the chopsticks. It’s also when I notice that he uses that fork with his opposite hand, so he can keep hold of mine with the other. It’s the best lunch of my life.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Funny Feelings

“It’s almost an audible thing, really, the way my heart punches against the bones in my chest. It’s like the drum solo in that fucking Phil Collins song, it becomes so all-consuming.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Funny Feelings

“sometimes the sun lifts you up, sometimes the clouds bring you down, but if you’re a smart witch, you’ll ignore all that and ride the wind.”
― Auralee Wallace, In the Company of Witches

“I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“Maybe this is why people take trips, for that feeling of your real life liquefying around you, like nothing you do will tug on any other strand of your carefully built world. It's a feeling not unlike reading a really good book: all-consuming, worry-obliterating.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Besides, I hate seeing someone unsatisfied with their food. It means they’re going unnurtured. Unfed.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo

“I knew the only thing more painful than being without him would be being together knowing I no longer truly had him.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“He's become my best friend the way the others did. Bit by bit, sand passing through an hour glass so slowly, it's impossible to pin down the moment it happens. When suddenly, more of my heart belongs to him than doesn't, and I know I'll never get a single grain back.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“It’s fucking rude that he’s so good-looking. It offends me.”
― Jessica Joyce, You, with a View

“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Women deserve this.” She stood up. This felt like the kind of moment when a person should stand up. “Women need to know that their pleasure matters.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Does the ground frequently shake here?” I quietly asked Gabby behind me. She shook her head. “That’s not a quake. That’s my sister.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“stepped into that godforsaken boardroom, and you practically demanded I become obsessed with you.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“Having you think I’m out fucking everything that moves when I’ve looked at nothing and no one since the first day I laid eyes on you. I stepped into that godforsaken boardroom, and you practically demanded I become obsessed with you.”
― Elsie Silver, Flawless

“The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move