Tangled Up in You Quotes

“He’d wanted to touch many women in his life. But he’d never so badly wanted to deserve one before.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“She was such a paradox: delicate but unbreakable; modest but intrepid; innocent but electrifying.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“A wise woman once told me, if I can't talk about it, I shouldn't be doing it.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“There are beautiful things that came out of this tragedy.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“Fitz hadn’t been able to deny her any adventure, no matter how small. So right then, he made a deal with himself: He would give Ren her adventures,”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“Today she was all tangled up about Fitz.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“But the way to handle problematic things isn’t to just pretend they aren’t there. It’s good to see it and feel this way. Also, you can still be impressed with the artistry. Both things can be true.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“Getting information out of him was like bravely sticking a hand into a thorny blackberry bramble and coming out with a single, shriveled berry.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“I think under that cocky shell, you're a big softie"

He laughed, incredulous. "I assure you, no female has ever called me that before."

She smiled sweetly. Too sweetly. "Fine," she said. "You're a little softie.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“I don’t want to assume.” “With me,” he said steadily, “assume. Assume I want you. Assume if I’m actually saying it that it’s real.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“Truly the last thing he should be doing was flirting with a woman who was so naive and only knew how to take things sincerely, talking with a woman who could get all his secrets to pour out of him like water from a pitcher, falling for a woman who would put her unscarred heart in his broken hands.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“I always figured if I was going to open a saloon, I’d go with peanuts in bowls and let the peanut shells litter the ground, but the sawdust and bullet casings are a nice touch.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“the relief of letting go of the day.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“When their eyes met, Ren felt suddenly naked at the way his expression had gone blank, at the way he stared directly at her face, finally exposed. He exhaled a quiet “Oh.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“If you took the raw confidence of Florence Pugh, the bone structure of Austin Butler, the charm of Jenna Ortega, and multiplied it by the effortless sensuality of Timothée Chalamet, you’d have Fitz.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“By her own admission, Ren was the most romantically inexperienced twenty-two-year-old in the world,”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“favorite reference texts: the Oxford English Dictionary, Roget’s Thesaurus, Strunk’s Elements of Style, Kovacs’s Botany, Abramowitz’s Handbook of Mathematical Functions, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Gray’s Anatomy, Sagan’s Cosmos, Hawking’s The Theory of Everything, Integrated Chinese, L’Huillier’s Advanced French Grammar, The New World Spanish/English English/Spanish”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“Just like she’d never believed that her hair could be meaningful, or hold magical, untold powers. It had always just been hair. And the minute Edward had cut it off, it was no longer even hers.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“...you look amazing. Nobody's even going to notice the fireworks tonight with you there.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You

“Whereas he'd spent his first year in his new world quietly observing, Ren was running forward, arms outstretched. He wanted to tell her just how impressed he was, how hard and disorienting and intimidating he knew it must be. Most of all he wanted to tell her just how desperately he wanted to hold her hand - and much, much more.”
― Christina Lauren, Tangled Up in You