Cornerstone Quotes

“I let myself think, I hope he loves me, and then I wonder if I've said it out loud. I try hard to remember if I'd formed the words with my lips. No. I didn't. I'm sure I didn't. I'm convinced of it, until he murmurs back, "Don't worry. He does.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“Sometimes thinking about what’s going to happen is worse than what actually happens.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“Love is an honorable thing to base a life upon, Addo says, swabbing the crumbs off his face with the back of his hand. "What that's not what you've got here, because love is like an amazing Bordeaux, or properly aged Gouda, or pickles. It's got to have time to ferment on a shelf in a quiet chamber, and then to be proven good, despite itself." He adds, "What you've got right now is more like a cheese stick...with some moonshine and cucumbers.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“Do you mean disrespectful? Blasphemous?" he asks. " Like Jesus, Jesus, bo-beesus, banana fanana fo-feesus, mo meesus...blasphemous to Jesus?" I just stand there like an idiot, not sure what to say to this strange man. He seems more of a wise guy than a wise man. After all, he just Name-Gamed a Third of the Trinity.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“I guess you can make 'normal' out of any old thing, if you've got enough of it.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone

“He's teasing, but it is obvious that I'm doing t all wrong. I don't know how to peel a stupid potato. Suddenly, I can't force a smile out on my lips. I'm tired of being the person who knows nothing. But Garrett, hardly missing a beat, slips his knife out of my hands and murmurs to me, "Here ya go, Old School, step aside and let me show you how the pro's do it.”
― Misty Provencher, Cornerstone