The Paradise Problem Quotes

“When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Maybe not, I say, but I think you do. I'm the only one here offering you unconditional support and love--and I'm not even asking you to choose me. I'm asking you to choose yourself. Because they won't.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“To quote a movie my girlfriend has made me watch at least five times, “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Right now is the time in life that teaches you you’ll get through it even if you hate it.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Do less, but better,”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Being an artist is sometimes about not being afraid to do it badly first.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Is there anything you own that you cherish? Or does the ability to buy anything make everything lose its value?”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“There’s nobody more fearless than people who can’t have dairy,”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“We get to decide how much of our hearts we want to give them.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I was an upbeat kid, and when I wanted to feel bad, he let me feel bad. The only thing he ever said was “It’ll get better.” And he was never wrong.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Whenever someone asks me what my Enneagram is, I’m like, ‘Whichever is the lazy, affectionate, cheese-loving one.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“It is the comfort of having an ally. It is the powerlessness of infatuation. It is the terrifying beginning of more.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I realize, just before we touch, that he’s about to erase everything I know about the act of kissing.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Google tells me that West is the son of a billionaire, and a glance at my banking app tells me I am a thirty-dollaraire.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I want that same closeness with my family, but we’re all broken in similar but opposing ways, and I have to be realistic about what that means for forming bonds of trust and vulnerability.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“If I had to choose between this shower and a date with Harry Styles… I would choose Harry Styles, but I’d hesitate.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“This is an objectively weird situation. And I’m weird all the time. But I’m not cold weird. I’m not hurtful weird.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“The world tells girls we should want romantic, flashy grand gestures, and those can be great. But if I had given it deeper thought, I know I’d have dreamed up something just like this—an offer given with honesty and communication and mutual respect—over anything showy.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I know you didn’t mean to, but that’s almost word for word what Richard Gere says in Pretty Woman before everything goes to shit.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Oh, shit.” “What?” “Wouldn’t I have a ring? I didn’t even think to buy one!” “Oh, right.” I reach into my pocket and pull a ring box out, setting it onto the console between us. “There you go.” Anna stares down at it. “This is so surreal.” “What’s that? “This just—even as a little girl,” she says breathily. “This is exactly how I dreamed it would happen.” “Are you ever serious?” Her smile straightens and she gapes at me. “You’ve told me I’m supposed to be a married medical student on the way back from Cambodia. I’m wearing actual Chanel and two days ago had my labia waxed by a woman with hands bigger than yours. My fake husband just dropped a ring box onto the console between us and said, ‘There you go.’ And you want me to be serious?”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Even if it's awful, it's going to be okay,; she says. 'You know how I know that?'... 'How?' 'Because even if it goes off the rails, even if everyone ends up shouting and crying and accusing, they'll still leave at the end of the night, and we'll still have our house and our life and this love that nobody can touch.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I love you, too,' he says against my cheek. 'I have been aching to say it for so long.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Houston, we have a problem(atic man).”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I’m too lazy for an influencer life.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“may”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“What in the smelling salts waistcoat gentleman shit is that?”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“Just ask. The two sexiest words ever spoken by an unreadable man.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“I give her an apologetic smile. “I was thinking I might check in on my sister. I haven’t seen much of her since we’ve been here. I’ll find you when I’m done?” Her face falls but in true Anna fashion, it bounces right back again. “Okay, yeah.” With a little smirk, she stretches, kissing my cheek and whispering, “See ya later, weirdo,” in my ear before she walks across the room to the bar, where Jake and Jamie are talking. Feelings I thought I’d banished return, hot and insistent. Is she doing this on purpose? Walking to Jamie to make me jealous?”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem