It's a Love Story Quotes

“Love happens over breakfast.’ ” “It’s just something Cormack said when we were first married. Romance happens over dinner. The candlelight, the wine.” “Everyone looks a lot better than they usually do,” Cormack says and laughs. Reenie rolls her eyes. “Well, yes,” she says. “That’s the romance of it. But at breakfast everything’s just as it is, in the light of day. No one wears lipstick to breakfast. And this is where you talk about your day and the part of the roof that might leak this fall. You bring your real self to breakfast.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“This feels like wealth, I think. This is the thing you save up for. You live your whole life so that you can be surrounded by too many people in too small of a room and tell the story of how it all happened.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“When you smile at me, I feel like I want to capture it. But it’s not the regular way like when I see something beautiful and I want to photograph it. When you smile, it does something to me, I feel it in my chest, and I just want to figure out how to get you to do it again.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I believe in love now; I’ve felt it and cannot unfeel it. It’s an imperfect thing, and it changes and breaks and heals the way people do.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I’d like to be the person who could take all of your sad things and make them happy. Like I’d hunt down each one and turn it over.” “I don’t think anyone is that person for anyone,” I say. “I don’t think so either. But I’d like to be that person for you.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“he looks like a bed you’d want to climb back into on a Sunday.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Love isn’t a helicopter ride to Catalina; it’s everyday care and treating the other person like they’re your house keys.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“It wasn’t Dan who showed me who I was, but I got quiet enough around him to see myself and just live in my body for a while.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I’d like to be the person who could take all of your sad things and make them happy. Like I’d hunt down each one and turn it over”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“It feels good to want something for someone else, something that has nothing to do with you, just because you care about them. And I wonder if this is what love is. I rest my hand on my heart to feel if it’s changed. I think it has. I have.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Love happens over breakfast.” Cormack smiles at Reenie. “If you want to know the secret to a happy marriage, that’s it.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“There’s a difference between someone loving you and agreeing with every single thing you do.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“If it were socially acceptable, I’d like him to present me with an affidavit stipulating that he wanted to kiss me as much as I wanted to kiss him, and that if I express an interest in another kiss, he will not rescind his interest. It would be nice if it were notarized.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I started thinking about Janey Jakes after I read Jennette McCurdy’s memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, twice in two days. I was captivated by her story and hypnotized by the writing, and my mind stayed in the world of kids growing up playing their assigned parts, reading from scripts. Everyone does this in a way—living out the roles we’ve been assigned—but the way it impacted Jennette absolutely grabbed my attention.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I wonder if it will touch them the way it's touched me or if they'll just think that's what everyone's love story looks like. Complicated, resilient, and constant.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“A kiss is like that. I mean, if it takes. Sometimes a kiss doesn’t go anywhere. But sometimes it starts and makes decisions all on its own.” He’s looking at my mouth as he says it, and I wonder if he’s imagining the same kiss I am.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Dan gets under my skin. And honestly, the whole purpose of skin is to keep things out.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“If there’s one thing you don’t want to get me started on, it’s The Notebook. He waits all that time and builds her a house? Come on. “The Notebook is insta-love followed by activities.” “The Notebook is not insta-love. It’s attraction leading to love based on mutual appreciation of particular qualities,” he said.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“It’s all about being brave enough to be your full broken self.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I think you think you have a poker face, when I can seriously see every thought as it crosses your mind. You just had a sarcastic thought.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Too soon to panic,” I say, though it’s never too soon to panic.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“What does that mean?" I say. "If you don't mind me asking. 'Love happens over breakfast.'" "It's just something Cormack said when we were first married. Romance happens over dinner. The candlelight, the wind." "Everyone looks a lot better they usually do," Cormack says and laughs. Reenie rolls her eyes. "Well, yes," she says. "That's the romance of it. But at breakfast everything's just as it is, in the light of day. No one wears lipstick to breakfast. And this is where you talk about your day and the part of the roof that might leak this fall. You bring your real self to breakfast.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Dan wipes a tear from my cheek and says, "I'd like to be the person who could take all of your sad things and make them happy. Like I'd hunt down each one and turn it over." "I don't think anyone is that person for anyone," I say. "I don't think so either. But I'd like to be that person for you.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I turn to him as we walk, and his eyes are asking if this is okay, holding hands in the light of day. I squeeze his hand in response, I get the sense that he's feeling as shy as I am about this new thing between us. For a second, I think I understand why they refer to the feeling in my stomach as "butterflies." It's fragile and new and unfathomably beautiful.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Looks at me for a beat, and it's not about the berries. "When you smile at me, I feel like I want to capture it. But it's not the regular way like when I see something beautiful and I want to photograph it. When you smile, it does something to me, I feel it in my chest, and I just want to figure out how to get you to do it again." I smile from the deepest part of my heart. Like this smile has been waiting for him. "That," he says and touches my lips. He presses his thumb to the corner of my mouth and I kiss it. "Is's the best smile, but more than that, I just like thinking you're happy.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I worry that those words will spill like water sloppily poured and seep into the earth where I can never get them back.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I obsess about my job and what people think of me so that they’ll think I matter. I think I’d like to be worth sticking around for.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I have spent a lifetime being on guard. I have worked so hard mastering how to be, and here I am flipped inside out. All of my raw bits are on the outside, and lying here with Dan, I am sleepy and sexy and playful. I rest my hand on his chest and memorize the rhythm of his beating heart. I have the strangest feeling that I want to protect him while also climbing inside of him for safety.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“He gives me a smile that tells me he'd be happy to answer all of my questions about his zipper.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I think about love and how it might be real and how, if it is, I'm not sure it's a choice.”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story