Flirting with Disaster Quotes

“I figured nothing’s ever too far gone,” he says softly. “That some things are worth rebuilding. Even if it means rebuilding them from the ground up.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“You’re my home, Meena. Out of all the places I’ve lived, I’ve only ever felt at home with you.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“That day we woke up in Vegas, I knew you were scared. I’d been scared too, but not because we’d gotten married. I’d felt like…like I’d just walked by a winning slot machine that was spitting quarters. I’d done nothing to deserve it, but I knew I needed to hold on to them for as long as I could. I didn’t know when the machine would stop, how long it would keep giving them, and I could already feel the cold metal slipping through my fingers, but I still held on, and…it wasn’t fair to do that. It wasn’t fair to you.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“I needed you,” he says softly. So softly I’m not sure whether I heard him. So softly I’m not sure whether he wanted me to hear him. “I needed you,” he says again, even quieter. “And then you left.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“But I’m in this. I’m in this with you. Whether there’s a signed piece of paper or not. We can get rid of it. We can rip it up and file the proper stuff and go back to the way we were. Or we can keep it. I don’t care. None of that changes anything for me. You’re it. You’re it for me. I’m here. And I’m yours. For as long as you want me.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“that you may have been so set on achieving and doing all of these things because you were scared of that love going away.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“My parents used to have so many family friends, uncles and aunties whom I’d known my whole life. Who would’ve hosted me in a heartbeat. But that was before they’d had a falling-out. Well, really, that was before my parents had been pushed out, basically ostracized after everything that had happened with my sister.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster