The Stuff That Never Happened Quotes

“Listen. I don’t know how to do this right, but I really, really love you,” he said, and cleared his throat. He licked his lips and started talking fast. “I think you’re the sweetest, most beautiful girl in the world, and I’ve been living for our telephone conversations. It’s the only thing that gets me through these days, knowing that I get to talk to you every night. Keeping the secret about this job was the hardest thing for me to do, but I wanted to tell you in person. And ever since I knew I was going to come here and ask you this, I couldn’t eat or drink anything. And I know I’m different from you, and I’m probably never going to be cool, but I love yourpaintings, I love that you do art, I get it, and I won’t ever tell you that you should do paintings that match somebody’s couch. I will keep you in paint and canvases for the rest of your life, and if you really want to teach elementary school, then I think you’ll be the best teacher there ever was. And I love that you dress so cute, and I love the way you smell and the way you sing in the shower. I used to camp out on the floor outside the door when you were showering just so I could hear you, and the first time we made love was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I was so afraid you were going to say it couldn’t happen again. I just want to spend all my time looking at you and telling you things, and even though I’m just some nerd who thinks about strikes and contracts all the time, I want you to know that I’m financially solvent right now, I have some investments, and I’ll always do anything I can to make you happy. Your happiness is going to be the main thing for me. From now on. Forever. I mean that.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

“She batted those
eyelashes at me so hard I thought I felt a breeze.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

“I walked around on the alert for love. I was an appreciator of people’s best moments.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

“he told me that when you go into marriage, you have to do it for only one reason—because you know that’s the person you really are going to stay with forever, and it doesn’t matter what they do or who else you meet or what kind of troubles the two of you find yourselves in. You’re in it. You make this deal that you’re going to always work things out. Period. You dig in and you make it work.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

“The kids are adorable,” I said. “Oh, adorable, sure,” he said. “But that’s just a safety net that nature provides so you won’t abandon them on the side of the road with the rubbish one morning. Because, make no mistake, they are trouble.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened