The Good Ones Are Taken Quotes

“When you were in law school and I was in grad school, we walked past this old jewelry store and you pointed to a ring that you thought was beautiful. You said something like ‘when I get married, my husband will pick out a ring just like that,’ and what you didn’t know was—” he pulled a box out of his pocket “—I bought that ring the very next day.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“I think we’ve been in a relationship this whole time and I just didn’t see it. You are the highlight of my week, of my day. You’re the voice that I hear when I know I should be doing something and I’m not—you’d tell me to go out and reach my full potential. But you’re also the voice that I hear cheering me on when I do something great.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“He’s always had my blessing, baby girl! I like the way he treats you. I like the way that he makes sure that he understands you. The two of you communicate well. You know, after the sex is gone and everything else, you got to be able to spend time with that person.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“Yeah, but if you have the right person, who you’re willing to work through your issues with, then you stop the cycle.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“Yeah, but if you have the right person, who you’re willing to work through your issues with, then you stop the cycle. It’s when people go into stuff thinking things are temporary or aren’t willing to make the effort to stay together that there are these issues.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“The last thing that you want is for a person who is for you to be presented to you, and you miss them because you weren’t open.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“You can’t make someone the one if they don’t actually want that for themselves. Better you know now than after years of marriage and kids. You deserve someone who’s sure.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“Garlic and butter dripped from her lips as a roasted grape tomato burst in her mouth. The shrimp were perfectly cooked, and the pasta was still al dente, with hints of white wine and crushed red pepper flakes tickling her tongue.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken

“We have choices! We have her grandmother’s green curry chicken, a spicy lamb with red chilies and Thai basil, crab-stuffed prawns with bucatini pasta and blistered Marzano tomatoes, whatever ‘blistered’ means. She also did a porcini-mushroom-and-Gruyère-stuffed pork tenderloin with a spinach-and-Parmesan risotto, a curried ginger-and-carrot soup with seared scallops, and those green beans with crispy lardons that you love.”
― Taj McCoy, The Good Ones Are Taken