Ready or Not Quotes

“It’s a lot of what motherhood is too. Moving from being self-centered to being other-centered.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“A secret is only a secret if no one knows about it. What’s a secret that everyone knows but no one talks about? It’s shame.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Even when I feel ugly, let the love in. Let someone care for me, tenderly, because they love me, not because I can’t do it myself.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Eve, for as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be as close as possible to you.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Men are absolute buttheads and for the love of God, please don't let them dictate your self-worth.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Don’t worry, Eve, your body is taking care of you. It’s a novel idea. Because if it’s not just me taking care of my body. If listening to my body means that it’s taking care of me too, then…maybe, just maybe…I’m not completely alone.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“He blinks down at me, a slow expression, filled with a depth that only decades of knowing someone can give you. This here is a man who knows me. And I feel known.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“It hurts to realize that the world is so much bigger and more complicated than you thought it was. It’ll always hurt.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Most people are self-centered. And I’m not talking about selfishness. I mean it literally. Their center is their own self. Like yours was in your first trimester. They understand the world only through their own experiences. Whatever happens around them, they ask, What does that mean for me? But then there are a select few who are other-centered. And when things happen around them, they ask themselves, What does this mean for everybody? And that sounds like Shep. It doesn’t surprise me that you’ve come to have a crush on someone who considers you.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Because you being comfortable in my house is pretty much the only criteria I’m currently using for picking a place.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“treat everyone like they’re somebody’s favorite person on earth?”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“You have the time?” I ask. “I don’t care. I’ll quit. Where are you?”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“He’s got a face that’s constantly inviting you to lie in a hammock and find shapes in the clouds.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Romance doesn’t love you more because you are (almost) perfect. Romance loves you because you are (charmingly) imperfect.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“You’ll do what the rest of us do,” he finally says. “And just make it work today.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“My erotica stash has never seen so much action. My ebook reader slams a Gatorade when it sees me coming.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“He rests his elbow on the doorframe over his head and lets his wrist hang down around forehead level. I can see armpit hair and the scaffolding of his rib cage. Hello, sir, you look like you’ve come to absolutely destroy me.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“But yeah, part of becoming a mother, for me, was coming to terms with the center of my world being something that wasn’t my own self.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Thank you for kicking in the first place and thank you for kicking when I was flat up against someone who loves me. Thank you for letting someone else remember this moment, treasure it with a hand against my body.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“His Can-I’s are balm for so much that is stinging and raw in my gut. I love his Can-I’s.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“There are two hearts in my body right now and in a few months, I’m going to set one of them free into the world.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“I don’t know if he’s talking to me or the baby, but it doesn’t really matter. Because right now, in this moment, me and the baby are one thing for Ethan. We’re his family. We made it. All the way here. A nine-month journey. And it’s just beginning.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“When you finally admit you want someone, the main perk is that you get to ask to have them.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Is there any compliment higher than someone dropping everything for you?”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“It’s a novel idea. Because if it’s not just me taking care of my body. If listening to my body means that it’s taking care of me too, then…maybe, just maybe…I’m not completely alone.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Because if it’s not just me taking care of my body. If listening to my body means that it’s taking care of me too, then…maybe, just maybe…I’m not completely alone.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“You're obviously endgame for her”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“Hi" Shep says and i realise that he is not addressing me "Please kick again. Unless you're too tired and then i will just be happy with what i got”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“It’s a web and—God, what a perfect system because—each of us is somebody’s favorite.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not

“so much bigger and more complicated than you thought it was. It’ll always hurt.”
― Cara Bastone, Ready or Not