Only in Your Dreams Quotes

“I’d burn everything to the ground for you and walk away without another look.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“Find it? What do you think was important enough to go back for in that storm?” “This is what got us stranded together in the woods?” I am flying. I am weightless, made of air and hope. “You always had it with you?” “I always had it with me.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“She’s that first ray of sunlight after a bad storm. Peeking through the clouds.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“She looks like the sun, Mom,’ ” Andrea says, voice dropping in apparent imitation. Zac stiffens at my side. “ ‘Mixed with a little bit of rain.’ I’ll never forget it. The sweetest words coming from a fourteen-year-old boy.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“We’ll paint yellow polka dots all over the walls, if that’s what you want.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“We’re sandwiched in the space between our cars, an unnecessary shelter in this empty lot, but it feels like we’re in our own little world, just me and my Clover.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“You realize you’re encouraging me to come up with a plan to meet a guy, right?” “Nah, I’m just waiting for you to realize you can check that off your list at any time. You’ve got one sitting right here.” I make a show of looking around, but he cuts off the beginnings of my comeback with a pointed, unamused look. “That would be me, you brat.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“I’ll fit you so good, Mel. You and me, we were made for each other. You’ll see.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“Just so you’re aware, it’s not required that you preface your feelings by calling yourself names. It’s not your job to keep my ego intact, least of all, by minimizing the way you feel.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“WHAT IS LOVE BOMBING? SEVEN SIGNS TO LOOK FOR.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“You—” I struggle for the right words. “You’re hitting on me. You realize that, right?” “I’ve been hitting on you all weekend. Thanks for finally noticing.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“Namely, letting go of the oar that’s now slipping the final inches off the side of the canoe. I dart forward to catch it just as Zac does the same. And this really must be a sappy romance novel come to life, because we end up missing the paddle completely and grabbing each other’s hands instead.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“When I dream about you naked, you’re not usually so hobbled, and you’re a lot more enthusiastic about it.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“That motherfucking fucker.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“After all, she isn’t supposed to be here with me. But I’m gonna marry that girl one day. There’s no other way about it.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“She nuzzles into me. “I don’t understand how you’re single.” “I’ve never been single. I’ve been yours.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“But me and her? It’s as personal as it gets. When you’ve been desperately in love with someone for fourteen years, a fling isn’t good enough. I want to be her last, and I need her to be mine.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“I was such an easy target for his brand of manipulation, because I so badly wanted to believe I could be special to someone.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“How did I get someone like Connor, who doted on me so profusely, to walk away without a thought? I loved him, and I lost him, and I have no idea how. I thought I’d been doing everything right to make him happy.”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel

“He’s Zac Porter, the golden boy of Oakwood Bay. Quarterback of the high school football team, on the cusp of taking the field for the University of Oakwood Bay,”
― Ellie K. Wilde, Only in Your Dreams: A Novel