Unloved Quotes

“I think you’d be really easy to love,” she says. It’s a lax, whispered compliment, one she doesn’t know sounds like a gunshot in my head, hitting me straight in the chest.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“To be loved is to be seen—and she’s the first person to really see him. That’s why they fall in love.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“If you were my girlfriend, Rosalie,” he says, his voice deep and rough. My full name is like warm honey dripping from his lips. “You wouldn’t have to do anything to convince me. Just a fucking smile and I’d be a goner, okay?”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I make a vow then to protect her, the pretty girl with butterflies in her messy curls, even if she'll never really be mine”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Loving Rosalie Shariff would be the easiest thing I’ve ever done—I know, because I’m already doing it. I think I’ve loved her since the day she stood up for me in that conference room. As a friend first, something I’ve never had, but now it’s more.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I make a vow then to protect her, the pretty girl with butterflies in her messy curls, even if she’ll never really be mine.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Every word she says settles in my soul, building something new around the soft, damaged parts of my heart that have felt unlovable for too long.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Freddy is warmth and sunlight, shining and shimmering across ocean-blue water.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Dance with me?” I ask. He smiles and touches his nose to mine. “Always.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I made you a coffee—I think I got your order right.” I think I’d drink rotten milk if she made it for me.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I think loving you would be the greatest thing in my life.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I think you’d be really easy to love.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I think Sidney Crosby is very handsome.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Bennett sets a plate of malted vanilla waffles with fresh fruit, a traditional French omelet with a garnish, and a plate of fresh maple-glazed bacon—which I think he made that way—in front of me, and my mouth drops open. “I don’t like that.” Matt frowns, his finger pushing my chin back up to close my mouth. “What?” “You looking at my goalie like he’s performed some kind of miracle,” he says dramatically. “Learn to cook, then,” Bennett says quietly, a hint of a smile on his face”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I’m so tall and uncoordinated,” she moans, reading my thoughts easily. Her head tries to dip in embarrassment. “I’m gonna look like a baby giraffe.” “Aww,” I coo, stepping backward onto the ice with her hands in mine as she treads slowly onto the already cut-up ice. “A very, very cute giraffe, though.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“She’s washed her hair”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I’m starting to think I’d give up anything, even hockey, for that life with you.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Ro’s so beautiful that seeing her always feels like I’ve been checked into the boards by some massive defenseman,”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I have the sudden urge to google “Can humans swallow their tongues?”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I’d rather you not be so close when you talk to my girl.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I think I’d drink rotten milk if she made it for me.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“I’ll be your friend, Ro,” I say. “I want you to see me as your friend.” “I’d like that, Matt.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“a massively oversized shirt with a bespectacled teddy bear reading a book and bright bold letters saying Beary Yourself in a Book”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“logging that reaction in my head under “Things That Make Rosalie Shariff Smile.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved

“Ask me, Rosalie. Please. I think I could tell you.”
― Peyton Corinne, Unloved