The Best Kind of Forever Quotes

“You have a soft belly. That’s all it is. You need to eat. You should be consuming at least two thousand calories every day. I don’t care where those calories come from. If you want to eat your weight in chicken nuggets, I’ll buy you every single bag.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Loving you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” he says. The easiest thing.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I never used to get nervous around women before Aeris, but to this day, I still get butterflies when I’m around her.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Cat person,” he corrects. Oh, wow. Did it just get hot in here?”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Look at you, soaking the blanket like such a greedy girl. How long have you been like this?”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Don’t move, or the guys are going to see the raging hard-on I have right now, and I’ll never hear the end of it.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“You’re adorable when you blush, you know that?” A flirtatious lilt skirts along his tone. ”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I stop in my tracks. I don’t know what it is about this girl, but she gets all my wires crossed.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Hayes is the life jacket safely secured around my shoulders. He’s helped me reach the surface again, and he’s helped me stay afloat so I never have to carry any pain by myself ever again.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Stacks, when I first met you, I never thought I’d end up on one knee for you. I never thought I’d settle down with anyone, actually. Every moment we’ve spent together has been the best kind of ride. I never believed that I was going to find love, much less find the person I’d want to spend the rest of my life with. And it just so happened that I got lucky enough to find both in you,” he says, his voice laced with a tenderness warm enough to unfreeze an icy lake.  Tears rage behind my eyes, but I’m not sure if it’s because of his speech or an aftereffect of nearly choking to death.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“He hugs me to his side, and he presses his lips to the top of my head. His voice is soft, nearly a whisper, but I still hear what he says.  “When I propose to you, I hope you’ll say yes.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Loving you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” he says.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I’ve never done anything in my twenty-four years of life that made me deserving of a blessing. But you, Aeris Relera, were a blessing in disguise. You make me a better person. You make my days worth living again. Living, okay? Before you, I was merely surviving. You saved me.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“He gets on his knees. His knees. “These flowers don’t even begin to scratch the surface to show how sorry I am. I want to earn your trust back if you’ll let me. If you want me to leave you alone, I’ll leave you alone. If you want me to prove my love for you, I’ll prove my love for you. I already bought you a nectarine orchard in South Africa, but I’ll buy you a vacation home out there, too. I’ll build you your own personal library, so you never run out of books. I’ll⁠—” Emotion garbles my words. “I forgive you.” And just like that, the war is over.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I can’t imagine any other woman taking my last name. Or she can keep hers, or hyphenate, or fuck it, I’ll take her last name. Hayes Relera has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I’ve had an epiphany for the first time in my twenty-four years of life. I’ve always been surrounded by girls, by options, and I’ve never had to go looking very far for them. It’s like I’ve been following a broken compass this whole time, pointing me east, west, and south, but never north. Never true north. Never home. Aeris is home.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Don’t be afraid of the love you still feel. Real love—true love—is worth fighting for, no matter how scary it is,”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“You know when your life is going too well, and you just feel like something bad is bound to happen? That bad has been waiting on the horizon for me this whole time in the form of Hayes Hollings. Little did I know that the person who makes my sun rise every morning would also be the same person responsible for darkening my skies.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“HAYES: No, no, and no. I don’t like celebrating my birthday.  CASEN: It’s 5-1, buddy. You’ve been outvoted. HAYES: Yeah, but since I’m the birthday boy, my vote counts for more. So it’s actually like 5-15.  KIT: How? HAYES: For every one of your votes, my vote counts for three times that.  KIT: In what fucked-up universe?  HAYES: This one, bitch.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“When my steady lips stretch over her trembling ones, love rattles inside my body like bottled lightning—frenetic and blinding, but in the best way possible. My skin sings under her buttery touch, and it’s in that moment that I realize I’d trade everything in the world to stay in her arms a little bit longer.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“You don’t need to say all of this stuff,” she mumbles. “I know. I want to. And since you’re my favorite subject, I’m never going to shut up.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“If you don’t move your hands, I’ll pin them to the fucking ground. You’re not hiding from me. You’re not keeping any part of your body from me. Right now, you’re mine. You’re going to let me worship every inch of you, and you’re going to like it. Do you understand?”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I’ve always loved when people aren’t afraid to talk about their passions. And something about the thought of always having a little piece of her when she’s away makes my heart swoon.  I don’t swoon, okay? No part of me has ever swooned. I brood. That’s it.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Hayes Hollings is ruination, and he wears sin like the snug fit of a leather jacket around his shoulders.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Tissues are a code red. At least, they are in the Hollings household. Faye went through a four-pack of boxes when her spineless ex-boyfriend broke up with her over text. I may or may not have gone over to his house that night and broken his nose.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“I remember the first time I met him. It was my first day of third grade, and during snack time, he came up to me and stole one of my peanut butter crackers. With no warning or anything. Then just ate it in front of me with this look like, Yeah, bitch, and I’d do it again.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“And when in doubt, drink it out, right? Okay, maybe not. I don’t promote alcoholism.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Theme Song: Your Man – Down With Webster Bling Bling – ALTÉGO Let It All Go – Birdy & RHODES I Think You’re the Devil – Ellee Duke Legendary – Welshly Arms Wonderland – Taylor Swift Skin – Rihanna MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT – Elley Duhé Blue – Madison Beer Devil I Know – Allie X MONEY ON THE DASH – Elley Duhé & Whethan Way Down We Go – KALEO How Do I Say Goodbye – Dean Lewis Do Me – Kim Petras Crying On The Dancefloor – Sam Feldt, Jonas Blue, Endless Summer & Violet Days Wicked – GRANT Love and War – Fleurie Silence – Marshmello (feat. Khalid) Fire on Fire – Sam Smith”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever

“Beautiful is a concept I never saw myself achieving—a standard that wasn’t meant for bigger girls like me. It just didn’t exist, and I structured my understanding of beauty around what the conventional standard was in society. Flawless skin, no cellulite, perfectly proportioned boobs, a perky butt, a thigh gap, and a flat stomach. That was the beautiful I’d grown to know. And it was never going to be me.”
― Celeste Briars, The Best Kind of Forever