Six Morning Kisses Quotes

“men often reach for bronze and treat it like gold because it gives them the chance to win without setting expectations too high.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Do you ever feel like you stumbled into the end of a novel? Just tripped into someone else's perfect life." "Not someone else's," he corrects gently. "Ours. Every bit of it.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Arden, objectively speaking, people don’t stay friends with their exes like you do. And they definitely don’t ‘casually text’ them about what is arguably the greatest romantic fumble in history asking for details about a sexual encounter that happened more than a decade ago… And now he's saying he didn't break up with you?”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“True, but I find coffee leads to fewer tragic endings," I say instead, wondering if she can hear the hope in my voice. "That's what you think.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“It’s a dangerous thing when you start measuring people by who they aren't.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“that feels fast.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“You know what kills me?" I say to the ceiling, to Mack, to the girls in the painting who've been listening to my problems for years. "When I applied for this job, I didn’t tell them, I wanted this, on my own, and when I got the offer I was overjoyed with a sense of accomplishment. I was sure it was the gallerist pun I made that solidified it. It wasn’t until I was leaving that I was told to ‘thank my parents’ for their latest contribution.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Then there's the businessman who started showing up a few times a week during his lunch breaks after his divorce. For a while, he just sat in silence, staring at the walls like they might hold answers. I pretend not to notice when he wipes his eyes.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Last week, a young girl in light-up sneakers sat here with her grandfather and asked the question we’ve all wanted to know since the dawn of portraiture, ‘Why do they look so serious?’ she asked. ‘Because sitting still that long makes anyone grumpy.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“and I now occupy the seat that he used to prefer.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Which given the radius I am from where so much of my formative life has been lived, isn’t an impossibility.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“as I slouch into the booth they’ve built against the wall near perfectly positioned in the window. Seriously, creatures of habit. Sitting here is different than it once was, but I’m not often haunted by the ghosts of my past, unless of course one walks through the door.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“Not that I’m timing him.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“I’m staring down the path at the brightly painted front door like it will magically open on its own.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“They say the grass is always greener, and from where I’m standing, it certainly looks like it.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“I hear it creak with memories I wasn’t prepared to think about now. Thanks for that, gate. Really helpful.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“I can hear birds judging my life choices,”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses

“To those looking for their happily ever after, this is a reminder that you don’t need to wait for the end of the story.”
― Diana Elliot Graham, Six Morning Kisses