Shucked Quotes

“I like you. A lot . It’s very uncomfortable for me.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“I was falling for him.
And I didn’t know what would happen if he wasn’t there to catch me.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“It’s always you,” I said, “and you know that.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“There has never been a moment when I didn’t notice you. I can’t stop noticing you – and I should. You know I should stop and yet you make it impossible. Fuck, I’ve tried.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“I wanted to be content. I wanted to stop fixing things for five fucking minutes and stay anywhere long enough to let myself be content. Right now, it was the only thing in the world that mattered to me.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“She glared at me, her gaze viciously cold. God, this girl hated me. Which was excellent, considering my immediate reaction to her was complete depravity.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“I want to take you out. I want to look forward to it. I want to obsess a little bit about where we’ll go and whether you’ll like it. Maybe I want to obsess a lot. But I still want to pick you up, bring you flowers, lose my fucking mind because you’re unbelievably gorgeous but we can’t be late so I’ll have to fuck you up against the door later—which you’ll love, I promise. I want to choose a special place to eat that has things you’ll like and I want to talk to you for hours. I want to hear about everywhere you’ve been and everything you’ve done, and all the places you want to go and things you want to do. I want to sit across from you knowing that everyone else in the world wants to be near you, wants your attention, and I was the one who got it for these short hours. And I want to bring you home and walk the dogs with you and take you to bed. And I don’t want it to be something you tolerate. I want to do better than that.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“There is no such thing as healthy adjustment anymore. We’re all carrying around reusable grocery bags of trauma simply as a product of being alive in this world and pretending everything is fine.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“There is no such thing as healthy adjustment anymore. We’re all carrying around reusable grocery bags of trauma simply as a product of being alive in this world and pretending everything is fine … And that’s just the basics of existing. It doesn’t even figure in the junk we pick up all on our own.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“Here I am now, in a place where I am forced to accept I do like you,” she continued, ignoring me completely. “I like your scowls and your moods, mostly because I’ve found all your buttons and it’s a lot of fun to push them.” … “And I find you attractive,” she went on. “Distractingly so. It’s actually a problem for me and I don’t know what to do about that, especially considering that you don’t like me.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“Don’t overthink,” she said, “even though I know it’s your superpower. Whatever this is, we just have to let it happen. It’s better that way, okay? We don’t have to know what comes next. We don’t have to control it.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked

“I was powerless in the face of those evil grins and those smart-ass comments. All she had to do was smile and tell me to go to hell, and I was fucked.”
― Kate Canterbary, Shucked