My Life with the Walter Boys Quotes

“Being a girl doesn't make you weak, Parker. It makes you special.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Two plus two. I got this shit.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“You couldn’t control everything, because it wasn’t all meant to be perfect. Sometimes things needed to be messy.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Everyone got behind Fox, the name the guys had dubbed the red truck.

"Fox?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah," Isaac said with a grin. "Our truck is hot, like Megan Fox.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“It's terrifying how death can materialize in a single, silent moment, completely unnoticed by the rest of the world.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“You're living with a bunch of hot guys, and instead of finding Cole and experiencing some real-life anatomy, you're shacking up with a textbook like a pariah.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“I'm sorry I keep making mistakes, life didn't come with instructions - Cole Walter”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“At least I didn't run into a wall today.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“In their sleep, both boys kept moving closer to me, and when I finally drifted off, there was one arm wrapped around my stomach and one hand intertwined with mine.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“I don't know what to do about him, Sammy." (Jackie)

"It's not what you do about him. It's what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I'm assuming he has, and show him what New York has to offer.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Love takes more than a couple days and a secret, shotgun marriage to develop into something worth dying for.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Loving you just crept up on me, and before I knew it, I was head over heels for you.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“You know, the kind of person who comes off as obsessed because she cares too much?”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“You take up the most room.” “Nobody asked your opinion,” Cole said, glaring at his younger brother in the rearview mirror.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Don’t you ever do that to me again,” I said, my tongue sharp, trying to make up for the fact that I probably wasn’t too intimidating after the failed push. “Not ever.” Startled by my outburst, Cole stared at me momentarily, his mouth half open. I narrowed my eyes and glared at him with as much menace as I could muster, fully expecting an apology. But then he started laughing, and it wasn’t a tiny chuckle, more of a full-bellied, hands-on-your-knees kind of laugh. “Quit it!” I said, when he didn’t stop. “Oh God,” he gasped, wiping away a few stray tears. “That was priceless.” “I don’t find anything about this funny.” “Yeah, because you couldn’t see your face. You were all ‘Grrr,’ and it was adorable.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“A, A, A, A, A, A,” Nathan said, reading off my results. “No shocker there,” Alex said. “You never know,” I told him. “Freshman year I got an A minus in my history class because my teacher said my final paper was too long. That was horrible.” Alex rolled his eyes. “Heaven forbid,” he said, but it didn’t bother me.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Eh, I’d give it a four and a half.” “Out of five?” “Ten,” I replied, watching him tread the water. “Fine, Simon Cowell,”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“I taught myself how to control my feelings. It was vital to my future success because I could never lose myself like that again. So I built a wall inside my mind to keep back my flood of emotions.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“It was some type of invisible force, as if he were the sun and I was a tiny planet being reined in by his all-consuming gravity”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“When you don’t plan ahead, things get messy.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“After the lengthy rehearsal dinner, during which Zack stabbed Benny with a fork and Jack and Jordan almost set the tablecloth on fire,”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“You can’t prepare for love. It’s not like taking your driver’s test or the SATs. It’s a gift. One that can happen at any moment.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Damn girl, for someone so short, you're like a mini bulldozer”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“When I was little, my mother would always let me take a sip of her wine at dinner, and surprisingly, I found I enjoyed the bitter taste.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“If you enjoyed Chicago, you’ll love New York.” “New York,” he repeated slowly. “Yeah,” I said. “It’s the best place in the world.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Katherine asked, poking her head inside. She was a tall woman in her late forties, with golden hair that was cut into a mom bob and starting to gray.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“I had been trying to fit my world into a small, safe box for so long. But life didn’t work like that. It could move in and out of the lines. You couldn’t control everything, because it wasn’t all meant to be perfect. Sometimes things needed to be messy.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“Loving you just crept up on me”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“You couldn’t control everything”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys

“I rolled over onto my back and gazed up at the sky. The sun was lingering just below the horizon and the sky was royal purple, but the stars had already come out for the night. Never in my life had I seen so many clear, sparkling dots against the dark canvas. It was then that I finally let the tears flow. I wasn’t crying because my knee was surely torn up and bloody. I wasn’t even crying because of Cole. The tears were for the people I missed. I wanted to hear my sister laugh at this horrible situation, my mom to yell at me for my bad behavior, and my dad to hold me tight as I cried.”
― Ali Novak, My Life with the Walter Boys