For Better or Hearse Quotes

“That’s a brave thing to do. Live for yourself. Most people don’t realize it’s what they want until it’s too late.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“You have to take the good with the bad. And when you do, you’ll find the bad doesn’t matter as much as the good.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Shame, sadness, stains her voice, slumps her shoulders. Dims her light.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Augustus casts her a wry look. “My dear, in every phone call, you are a topic. How’s Ash? Is Ash planning to maim someone today? He speaks about you so often, I’m afraid he is, what they called back in my day, twitterpated.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Even the act of brushing their teeth is foreplay.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Expression thoughtful, Augustus settles back into the seat. “One thing I’ve learned in this life, Nathaniel, is that if we’re lucky, we get one shot. One death. One life. One good love. I only had ten years with Rosalea. But the one thing I’m glad for…” Augustus tilts his head back, absorbs the warmth of the late afternoon sun. “I’m glad I didn’t hold back my feelings.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Ash grabs the strap of his golf bag before he can walk away. Yanks it backward so sharply he almost lands on his ass. He catches himself. Spins. She pulls him against her. In her eyes, fire. “Kill you later.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“What has this girl survived? That’s what he wants to know. Why does Hawaii make her flinch? And goddamn does that lipstick ever come off?”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“You know,” Ash muses. “Love and death are so similar. The beginning. The end. It’s all a mystery. An unknown. Both are always on our minds. We don’t control the ride, the ride controls us. And no matter how hard we prepare, no matter how much we think we’ve got this, we can’t escape. Love. Or death.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Head bowed, face furrowed in concentration, he ties her laces.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Take your fucking stick and keep moving unless you want it up your ass,” Nathaniel snaps, stepping in front of her to block her from view. “Fuck you, dude.” With that, the guy storms off. Ash looks up at him, brow cocked. “Impressive. Violence before lunch.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“That’s what love is. An apparition. It exists, until it doesn’t.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“She doesn’t love Jakob anymore. She’s haunted by him. Because isn’t that what past relationships are? Ghost after ghost after ghost? And what do ghosts do? They haunt. They linger. They freak the fuck out of people when they least expect it.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“She was the junky thing found in the bottom of a drawer. And that was before her diagnosis. After? Friends didn’t get it. They dropped off, quit calling. Either thought she was weird or got weird about it themselves. Ash learned then that when things got hard, people who love her will let go. So it’s better if she does it first.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“If there’s one thing her ex taught her, it’s that love is a kind of death.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“I don’t want to be a main character. I want to be that statue in the corner of the room that sometimes gets mistaken for a ghost and scares the shit out of people.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“After discovering she had a talent for crying on cue, she started her own business. She became a professional funeral mourner. Then, after her botched relationship with Jakob, she expanded into professional wedding objector. A profession she abandoned three years ago.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“If there's one thing her ex taught her, it's that love is a kind of death. Ash wants none of it. The happily-ever-after belief system perpetuated in fairy tales is a farce. Because eventually it all ends.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“I don't want to be a main character. I want to be that statue in the corner of the room that sometimes gets mistakes for a ghost and scares the shit out of people.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“I don't want to be a main character. I want to be that statue in the corner of the room that sometimes gets mistaken for a ghost and scares the shit out of people.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Grief and love coexist,” he says, resting his massive hand on Tessie’s belly. His rugged face creases with pain. “You can’t have one without the other. You have to take the good with the bad. And when you do, you’ll find the bad doesn’t matter as much as the good.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“You only get one shot. Chance, life, love are finite.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Love and death are so similar. The beginning. The end. It’s all a mystery. An unknown. Both are always on our minds. We don’t control the ride, the ride controls us. And no matter how hard we prepare, no matter how much we think we’ve got this, we can’t escape. Love. Or death.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“I want cats. I want a place in the forest or on a boat near the water. I want to travel to witchy woods and tremulous oceans and take lazy naps in a cabin in one of those big blankets with the loops that are so ridiculous I can already see your eye roll. But I…I want all that. I want to be healthy and have good sex and maybe live in a lighthouse.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Observe, do not absorb.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Love isn’t about fixing yourself so that someone loves you. It’s about finding the right person to love you as you are.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“For the weirdos. The left out. The lone wolves. Those who found themselves in the darkness and the doubt and bloomed. You’re perfectly dreadful. For my cousin. For always matching my freak.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“Ash’s husky voice breaks through his thoughts. “Sometimes I think it’s all you need in the world. If you have that one right person in your life, you can survive anything.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse

“He’d commit arson if she asked.”
― Ava Hunter, For Better or Hearse