The Exception to the Rule Quotes

“Like a date?” “I hope so? I intend to flirt.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Without question.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“But what can I say? I must be a conundrum wrapped in a mystery tied with a puzzle shoved in a pickle jar.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Do you ever have a feeling about someone? Like they’re your safe space and, I don’t know, like someday it could be more?” I swallow, nodding. “Yeah. Of course.” I’m looking right at her. “I have a feeling about him.” But the thing is, when she looks up at me and our eyes lock, I’m pretty sure she has a feeling about me, too.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“I don’t normally kiss before the first date,” I tell him. “But you’re the exception to the rule.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Forget flowers; give me a cupcake and it’s a perfect date.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“so life goes on even when hard things happen.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“He replies with a phone number. And when I enter it into a text box, an existing contact pops up on-screen. The Hot TA.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“He came out looking like an A+ sex stud, and I came out looking like Gollum curled around her bottle of wine.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“We get soup dumplings when we’re thinking about each other.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Do you ever have a feeling about someone? Like they’re your safe space and, I don’t know, like someday it could be more?”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“What did you say when I asked you to marry me exactly at midnight?"
" You’ll never forget what I said because I think you are still deaf from how loud I screamed YES into your ear. Are we still going to be emailing each other from the same couch on Valentine’s Day in fifty years?"
"Without question.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Can I take you out to dinner?” His question comes out of absolutely nowhere, and my fists drop like stones. “What?” “Dinner.” He cutely mimes spooning food into his mouth. “Sun goes down. People eat.” “Like a date?” “I hope so? I intend to flirt.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“I wondered whether you were bummed to not be getting a graduation ceremony.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“You will get no trash talking from me, especially coming from Irvine where I’m not sure whether even 50% of our community could successfully differentiate lacrosse from field hockey.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Terra thinks I’m intimidating. (But she also thinks I’m hot.)”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“it feels like we were destined to run into each other in some truly unbelievable way”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“I didn’t want to forget. It feels like a tradition now!”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“As one of my sisters reminded me, it’s always good to recognize what doesn’t work for me. So it’s all good.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Is it weird that I just had a pang of sadness that I won’t be at your college graduation? I know we don’t know each other, really, and I don’t have any idea where you’re going to school, but in the past six years of change and chaos, you’ve been a constant. We come from the same hometown so in a way we do know each other. Or at least, we know where we come from. Maybe someday, way in the future, we’ll run into each other back in Irvine and I’ll just somehow know it’s you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“I don’t normally kiss before the first date, but you’re the exception to the rule.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“I feel like there’s this expectation that you’ll come in at 18 and know exactly what it is you’ll do for the rest of your life, but it isn’t realistic.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“like a lot of things, but I don’t LOVE any one thing. It feels scary, you know? To worry I might commit to something because I have to but not because I love it.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“After all this time, he remembered? With my thumping heart scaling my windpipe, I jog down to him, where he and that sparkling, widening smile are walking toward me, faster now, and I throw my arms around him. He catches me with one arm, holding me so tight, and exhaling the most amazing sound into my neck.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Callum watches me with sparkling, amused eyes. “Can I take you out to dinner?” His question comes out of absolutely nowhere, and my fists drop like stones. “What?” “Dinner.” He cutely mimes spooning food into his mouth. “Sun goes down. People eat.” “Like a date?” “I hope so? I intend to flirt.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“C . . . my hands are shaking right now. I am freaking the hell out. I live in Philly, too. And I think you know that.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“the kind of fiction written by women that a man would own”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Yours, C.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“dumpling”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule

“Maybe someday, way in the future, we’ll run into each other back in Irvine and I’ll just somehow know it’s you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Exception to the Rule