How My Neighbor Stole Christmas Quotes

“If you allow fear to take over your actions, then you’re never going to accomplish anything.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“A gentleman can hold the door open for you…and slap your fine ass when you beg for it.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbour Stole Christmas

“Do we always have to be thinking? Do we always have to be depressed? Do we always have to participate in entertainment that highlights drugs, abuse . . . sexual assault? Life is hard enough as it is. Why can’t we just escape that and enjoy something that doesn’t sprinkle us with a heavy dose of depression afterward?”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Narrator: Don’t you get mouthy with me! I have control over your pants, and I have no problem splitting them so your dilly dong falls right out because oops, I forgot to put underwear on you. “Jesus . . . Christ.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Max takes a step back, shielding his eyes. “What the hell are you doing?” “Showing you my jolliness.” “Well, fuck, stop. It’s terrifying.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“I still want to win, but, yeah, maybe I’ve softened. Maybe it isn’t about the competition as much as doing something I would never have thought to do a few months ago. Maybe it’s about growth. Maybe it’s about coming out of my shell and letting myself live again. Enjoy the season . . . and honor my parents.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Die Hard is not a Christmas movie,”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“curtsy to that bitch Samantha,”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“You were the girl from California who was way out of my league, who is still out of my league,” I say, not caring that I’m putting it all out there. “You were the boy who set the standard, a standard no one else has yet to match.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbour Stole Christmas

“If this is going to work between us, then you’re going to need to grow some thicker skin.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“I first want to say, thank you for calling me young. Coming up on thirty has made me feel like I have one foot in the grave. So, bless you.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Is it so wrong for us to just be happy while watching something? Do we always have to be thinking? Do we always have to be depressed? Do we always have to participate in entertainment that highlights drugs, abuse . . . sexual assault? Life is hard enough as it is. Why can’t we just escape that and enjoy something that doesn’t sprinkle us with a heavy dose of depression afterward?”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“She questions. She challenges. She drives me fucking mad.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“I can’t believe you lied to us. Hell”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“They’re predictable”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“And if she does”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“I touch up my lipstick in my bedroom mirror”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“How are we going to get this done if you keep complaining?”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“bereft”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“I curtsy—for God knows what reason—and say”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Thank you. That’s what I try to tell people who scoff at them. Is it so wrong for us to just be happy while watching something? Do we always have to be thinking? Do we always have to be depressed? Do we always have to participate in entertainment that highlights drugs”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“And Samantha . . . oh”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“You know”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“You just so happened to be outside when I was outside”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Hate to admit it”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“I hate this time of year. And don’t get me wrong”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Cole stomps around as a very unhappy dick.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“It’s as if whenever I see you, the air in my lungs is refreshed, my pulse is revived, and my soul feels at peace.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbour Stole Christmas

“And the thing with Cole, that’s…that’s…” So real. So wonderful. So life-altering. “That’s for the competition.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbour Stole Christmas

“You’ve brought some life back into my mundane days,” he says softly. “I knew I was living in the dark, going week by week, month by month, but I didn’t realize how far I’d sunk until you came back.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbour Stole Christmas