Let's Pretend This Will Work Quotes

“And I am so frantic, filled with confusion and betrayal and hurt—a million hurts. My heart is beating too fast. I am not loved. I am not loved. I am not even seen.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“first!”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Love doesn’t always have to look like two hearts melting together as one.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“I went back and took Jamie by the hand. He squeezed mine and smiled into my eyes. “I guess I should have expected marrying you was going to be complicated.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“La Starla was the officiant, and she asked us all to concentrate on magic and the universe and the incredible miracles that wait for us around every corner if we just have the sense to look for them and pay attention.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“The truth, as told by La Starla, is that the path you’re on may simply be a little detour that leads you to the real path you’re supposed to be on, where all your happiness is hanging out, waiting for you.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Everything can change for the better in one instant.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“But this is just what being in a relationship means. Everybody knows this. It takes patience and sacrifice. You feel misunderstood sometimes. You feel alone even when you’re with the person who means the most to you. You just smile, and you go on. It’s life. And life has tradeoffs.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“If you’re going to freak out over every little apparent setback in your life, you’re not going to enjoy life as much as you could be,” she says and actually laughs. “How about you just try to remember that it’s all going to work out, and don’t sweat the details. Just sit back and be curious, why don’t you?”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Easy,” he whispers. And then, almost to himself, I hear him say, “Here we go.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“think that when you see bitter people out in the world, people who’ve been married for forty years and they tell you that love isn’t really real, that it never works out, those are the people who settled for the kiddie pool, and it dried up, and they never knew what was really out there for them. Saddest thing in the world.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“They are a complete unit, needing nothing else in the whole world.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Love just showed up, right there on the curb on a Tuesday morning. The feeling slams into me.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Don’t get married to someone who requires that you act quote, unquote, ‘normal’ in order to please him, okay? You don’t have to be anybody’s idea of normal. You’re wonderful and you’re an acquired taste, not just some generic woman who might be a match for just any old random guy.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“You know something? I think you’re going to be the great love of my life.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“that there is no joy that can even come close to being your weird, strange self and having people love you for just who you are,”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“I think of how he’s leaving his fingerprints behind, everywhere he touches, and I could touch those objects, too, and then we would be together somehow.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“sometimes objects hold magic, even though we may never understand how a skirt in a thrift shop can call to a person. I’m not going to say that everything happens for a reason, but I will say that there is plenty that we don’t understand about life.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Well, I just think that when that first love comes along, it brings with it a huge thunderclap of feeling—something so amazing that we get overwhelmed with it. And that it’s tempting to think that it’s the only love there ever could be in the world. But then it ends. Most of the time it ends. And then, a long time later, we look back and see that that whole experience of love was just a little kiddie pool we were paddling around in. And that actually a really huge ocean awaits us.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“smash a bunch of tomatoes and garlic and white beans together, throw them in a frying pan with some olive oil, and wait while they coalesce into something otherworldly and delicious. Then you put some globs of cheese on it and pour the whole thing on top of pasta, and voilà, you might as well be Julia Child.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“Friday afternoon without warning. It doesn’t help that I almost can’t look directly at Ren for more than five seconds; it’s like looking into the sun. Besides all that, he’s the head drama teacher at Piedmont, and I’m just a newly hired English teacher—and yes, okay, so we’ve been ducking into supply closets for make-out sessions for a few months now, and I’ve met his friends, and I see him every weekend for fabulous sex—but I’m certainly not at his level, if you know what I mean. If he’s a ten, I’m probably a seven on my very best day, and even then only if my straight iron doesn’t cause a fuse to blow. “No, I mean it,” he says. “I want us to get married. Why are you so surprised?”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“It”
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“does not care.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“I”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“stick my tongue out at the phone, and it sticks its tongue out at me, too. This is war. At five in the afternoon, I remember that I haven’t eaten anything in probably twenty-four hours, and the wavy feeling in my stomach probably means I’m in an advanced stage of starvation. I go rummaging through the cabinets. There’s a can of olives, and it takes me ten minutes to open it and then twenty-five seconds to eat every single olive. By six thirty, I am lying in a heap on the bedcovers on the floor when the phone comes”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“He is not”
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“an ugly”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“ugly pale yellow dress, and it’ll have a huge butt bow,” I say. He has moved away from my jawline and is now working his way to my breasts, via the collarbone. “Mmm. I love this vindictive side of you.” “What are your kids going to say?” I ask. Bravely.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“has moved away from my jawline and is now working his way to my breasts, via the collarbone. “Mmm. I love this vindictive side of you.” “What are your kids going to say?” I ask. Bravely.”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work

“turned black and bubbled away, and”
― Maddie Dawson, Let's Pretend This Will Work