The Best Friends' Playlist Quotes

“I kiss her forehead. My wife. Paige is my wife. I will never get tired of calling her that.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“You’re all I think about, Paige. When I’m away from you, I wonder what you’re doing. When you smile, I wonder how to make it happen again. When I’m near you, I want to be closer.” Jordan stretches out his hand, cupping my cheek. “Paige, you’re all I want.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“Because if things were different, Paige… I’d follow you anywhere. Not just because you’re my friend but because you’re more than that to me. So much more.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“This song is the way you make people feel like they’re the most important person in the room. This song is the way you can’t resist a cheesy pun. This song is the way your voice goes up two octaves when you’re on the phone with your parents. And this song is the way your smile is the only thing that makes me feel better after a rough day.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“Paige smiles at me, still oblivious to the way one tilt of her lips can take control of my heart. I feel my mouth gape open like a dumb fish and quickly pull it into a smile, all the while my heart pounds wildly inside my chest. I could live the rest of my life searching the globe and never find someone who makes me feel the way she does.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“I want someone who will, someone who will step up for our relationship even when difficult things come our way. I want someone who will go to bat against their pride to make sure that I’m theirs, because I will do that for them.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“It was like you put color into my world, Paige. And I know that wherever you go, you’re going to change lives. Just like you’ve changed mine.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“Flipping through the pages of that notebook tonight was like falling for Paige all over again.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“I’ve missed her. Suddenly, the hole in my chest that is reserved solely for Paige begins filling in with every nuanced piece of her that has come back to my life.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“With one look in those green eyes, I feel weightless but grounded, happy but sad, home but homesick.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“It takes all I have not to blast Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly with His Song” for all the world to hear—that’s my mood right now. But I won’t do that because I’m a dignified lady who’s got my life together. Insert crying-uncontrollably GIF.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“His brown eyes meet mine, a hint of mischief lingering there. He runs a hand through his head of dark-blond hair before a full-hearted smile breaks across his lips. My stomach flips, and now my heart is signaling SOS for an entirely different reason. I am hopelessly, passionately, and unrequitedly in love with my best friend.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“This dingy diner just became a safe haven for me, because that’s what Jordan always does—he takes the worst places and turns them into a shelter from the storm.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“So why, then, do I feel like a part of me just died in that parking lot? Like my time’s running out? Like I’ve lost her already? But I remind myself that this is how it has to be. Paige was never mine to keep.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“I smile at her because it’s Paige, and nothing in this world lights me up like she does—especially when I take her by surprise.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist

“This dingy diner just became a safe haven for me, because that’s what Jordan always does—he takes the worst places and turns them into a shelter from the storm. His brown eyes meet mine, a hint of mischief lingering there. He runs a hand through his head of dark-blond hair before a full-hearted smile breaks across his lips. My stomach flips, and now my heart is signaling SOS for an entirely different reason. I am hopelessly, passionately, and unrequitedly in love with my best friend.”
― Jessica King, The Best Friends' Playlist