Not Another Love Song Quotes

“Look, I don’t know what you want from me, but—” “Anything.” Black eyes looked down on her, and he took a shaking breath. “Everything.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“It’s simple, really. It’s about a cello that fell in love with a violin.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“If you don’t want to be with me, together with me, I can understand,” he said, and she felt her knees wobble. “But, Gwen, please make music with me. I need you in my life. I need to be in your orbit in some way, and if you don’t want me to touch you and kiss you and fuck you, then let me make love to you onstage every night because it’s the most alive I’ve felt in ten years—”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“The rest of his life would be spent chasing her, trying to catch up.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“But the second you get out of your head, you’re magnificent.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Gwen, why are you gaslighting yourself?” Mei had asked her over drinks. “Leave that to the patriarchy.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“I saw you crying in that video last night, and I said to Jake, ‘We gotta get back to New York. Baby girl is spiraling.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Because Alex had traveled the entire world by the age of twenty-six, and Gwen Jackson was the first person he’d found who could actually do what he did. And possibly do it better. Only she didn’t know it yet. And that—that—was the terrifying part.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Alex focused on mistakes. Alex talked too much about topics no one cared about. Alex’s eyes sought out Nathan Andrews’s approval after every take. Alex’s fingers tightened into claws at night, needing the stress of playing all day to be professionally massaged from his body. Xander Thorne finally believed every single person who’d told him he was the best. He played like he was the best. He moved like he was the best.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Wonderful, Xander,” Nathan said. “Absolutely stunning. Do you have a title for it yet?” He rubbed his brow, and shook his head, eyes pressing closed. “I had one. It’s wrong.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“But being utterly hypnotized by a nobody, playing “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” of all things, was unsettling. To hear that she’d received no formal training was maddening. And it added insult to injury to see her sitting in the fourth row of a pops orchestra.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Now, after eleven years of nothing but violin and exactly zero great love affairs, she realized that Shakespeare might be full of shit.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“after eleven years of nothing but violin and exactly zero great love affairs, she realized that Shakespeare might be full of shit.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Even if you work at being perfect, people leave.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“YES! GWEN, THIS IS SOME GOURMET LOVE STORY SHIT! YES”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“He didn’t look up at her. Gwen shook her head, clearing it. Not everything was about her.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“They’ve been keeping you hidden,” he said. “Ordinary. When you’re anything but.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“But being utterly hypnotized by a nobody, playing “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” of all things, was unsettling.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Um, no? Gwen, he was looking at you like I’m about to look at the Grubhub delivery guy. Ready. For.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“You were just starting to feel it.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“I just… really wanted to get outta there before you guys boned.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“He owns the tracks.” Declan snorted. “Okay, Scooter. But I bet I could find something.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Don’t worry. It’s not a love song.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“The Pops doesn’t matter to me. So what did?”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“The way she’d brought him back to life in so many ways.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“Declan asked if anyone needed him on tambourine, to a resounding no.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“She holds it like a subway pole most of the time, but I think she’ll do okay today.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“And Gwen watched as Nathan used her broken heart to make money. She was shaking.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“I’m good with notes on a page. I’m good at music—and that’s what I tried to tell you on that stage just now.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song

“You are,” he said simply. “But if you worry about who’s listening, you’ll never be fully playing.”
― Julie Soto, Not Another Love Song