Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip Quotes

“It pained me to think something so inane, but that morning, as she’d subjected me to an endless T-Swift playlist, I realized that Liz was a fucking Taylor Swift song.

She was.

Vibey and romantic, but with the uncanny ability to reach inside of you and grab your heart with her absolute specificity. Liz Buxbaum wasn’t just a redhead; no, she was a girl whose hair was the color of the late September maple leaves that fluttered on the home base tree in her front yard.

And Liz Buxbaum didn’t just wear a sweater, for God’s sake. No, she wore an apple green cardigan that smelled like Chanel No.5 and the front seat of your car, where she’d left it for a week.

She said it reminded her of the way the rain sounded on the roof the first time you kissed her.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“I’d seen Liz fight back tears before, and it was the worst thing I’d ever witnessed. Because Liz Buxbaum was supposed to be laughing and romantic - she’d been born in a daydream and been built on love stories, for God’s sake - so seeing her devastated was the worst.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“I love you, Elizabeth Buxbaum"
"I love you more, Wesley Harold Bennett.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“Is that song about a girl obsessed with her neighbor?”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“She was the shiny, smiling, wide-eyed product of unconditional love.
The spokesperson for love.
A love mascot.
But I didn't know it in the same way.
And I didn't know if I knew how to be like that.
At least not the way Lib deserved, the way her glass heart had always dreamed.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“He was too good to be true, only he wasn't.
He was the real thing.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“You're a mess, Wessy, and I love it so much”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“It pained me to think something so inane, but that morning, as she'd subjected me to an endless T-Swift playlist, I realized that Liz was a fucking Taylor Swift song.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“I'd seen Liz fight back tears before, and it was the worst thing I'd ever witnessed. Because Liz Buxbaum was supposed to be laughing and romantic - she'd been born in a daydream and been built on love stories, for God's sake - so seeing her devastated was the worst.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“She cued up more Taylor Swift - Run, this time - and stood on the gas pedal.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“And Liz Buxbaum didn't just wear a sweater, for God's sake. No, she wore an apple green cardigan that smelled like Channel No.5 and the front seat of your car, where she'd left it for a week.
She said it reminded he if the way the rain sounded on the roof the first time you kissed her.
Taylor. Fucking. Swift.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“It pained me to think something so inane, but that morning, as she'd subjected me to an endless T-Swift playlist, I realized that Liz was a fucking Taylor Swift song.
She was.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“I took a drink and watched as she adjusted the mirror, pulled out her lipstick and re-applied.
Retrograde red.
The color of my happiness.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“What in the hell do you know about love, Wes?”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip

“Do you know how much I love you?" [...] "I know it's only been a few months so it's probably too soon to say it, and I meant it in a super chill, non-clingy way, but, I, um,-"
"Have never said that before. [...] To me.”
― Lynn Painter, Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip