The Worst Kind of Promise Quotes

“Look, Faye, when you called me…I’ve never been so afraid in my entire life. I was worried something bad had happened to you, and I was right. I need to know I’m keeping you safe, otherwise I’m going to lose my mind.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“The guy I’m secretly in love with—the guy who looks at me like I’m his kid sister.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Holy shit. Am I seriously that rusty that I didn’t know what she was implying? I want to say I’m a gentleman and would never fuck her when she’s coming off an emotional low, but I’m not a gentleman, and my self-control isn’t that strong.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“My life doesn’t fucking exist if Faye’s not in it. Whenever she decides to leave this planet, I’m going to follow her, because there’s no way in hell I’m going to survive if I never see her face again, never hear her voice, never hold her.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“I underlined things that reminded me of you.” He even doodled small hearts. Hearts. Like a teenage boy who has a school-grade crush on a girl.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“He annotated a book for me. Kit Langley annotated a book for me. Kit Langley—the man who’s never been with the same woman twice—carved time out of his day to read a book and tab it. This has to be some kind of fever dream.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“I’ll always crawl back to her. I’ll crawl to her on my knees across the broken shards of my heart. I’ll crawl to her when she’s thousands of miles away from me. I’ll crawl to her even if she never wants to see me again, because that’s the power she has over me. That’s the kind of love that possesses me. Unconditional, undying, unequivocal. I’m forever hers.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“She’s all in. I’d pump my fist in the air if I had a hand to do it with. One small step for man, one giant leap for Kit-kind.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Hey,” Kit murmurs, using his other hand to caress the side of my face. “You know I’d take a lifetime of trouble in return for a day with you, right?”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“I was just talking about how thrilling reading can actually be. It’s relaxing but stimulating. You’re in this other little world, experiencing it for the very first time. You don’t have to worry about your shitty desk job or the errands you have to run tomorrow. You can just…escape.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Okay, I’m aware that pet names aren’t really keeping things “platonic” between us, but I can’t deny that it doesn’t suit her. Blame it on a Freudian slip. I don’t see her as some damsel in distress that needs to be saved; I see her as a princess who deserves to be adored, to be spoiled, to be tended to at her beck and call. And fuck, I’d give anything to be her prince.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Still keeping her arm plastered to her chest, she waves at my engorged crotch with a stiff hand. “And put that thing away!” I don’t even bother looking down. “I can’t! I’m so fucking hard right now that I can’t think straight. You do this to me. No other girl does, okay? All of the girls I’ve been with haven’t held a candle to you. You’re all I ever think about, and it kills me that I can’t have you.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“I want to mean something to someone.” Faye means more to me than she’ll ever know.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Jesus. I want to hug her, touch her. I want to hold her in my arms and never let go.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Friends. Did I seriously just say that? Why did I say that? Why couldn’t I just tell her the truth? I want to be so much more than just friends.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“Star left defenseman for the NHL’s Riverside Reapers. One of my brother’s best friends. The guy I’m secretly in love with—the guy who looks at me like I’m his kid sister.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise

“But by some miracle, which I definitely never deserved, you found your way to me.”
― Celeste Briars, The Worst Kind of Promise