Snowed Under Quotes

“As always, take care of your heart while reading.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“Someone wise once told me that who we are isn’t defined by our abilities but by who and what we love around us. You love those kids so much, I think you’d go to jail for them. Your value isn’t in how well you can handle the bad times. It’s in the amount of love you pour out into this family.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“Charlie and Piper followed Cooper around like two newborn ducks that had imprinted on the first thing they saw after hatching.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“Madeline Sage is, for lack of better terms, a keeper. Beauty is one thing, brains and humor are another. To keep this one sweet and simple: she is everything she thinks she’s not. And it is a pleasure to show her otherwise.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“I don’t love Madeline the mom or Madeline the nurse. I love you, Madeline, alone, I thought. With her kids, without her kids. Degree or no degree.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“This was the best not date ever, hands down.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“We then laughed so hard that we snorted simultaneously, making us laugh even more until our laughter converted to wheezing gasps.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“I collected each fact like it was a precious gift and stowed it away for later. As if I was planning on writing some kind of Madeline dissertation and needed every single piece of her documented in my brain.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“No one sticks around long enough to get in the circle. And if you do, it’s kind of a miracle.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“Your mom met Madeline and the kids?” He might as well have said “you went to the moon and had a martini with a dog wearing a top hat?” in that tone.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“I smiled at my mom, apologetic. Sorry that I’d grown up on her. Sorry that I’d moved out and started my own life—one that felt like I’d hit reboot recently. Sorry I hadn’t clung to our nights of eating pizza on the floor and putting together a one-thousand-piece puzzle in a single sitting. I hoped Madeline clung to her kids, and that they clung right back.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“Even as a baby, he demanded nothing less than 100 percent. He pushes you to be the best version of yourself.” “Yeah…” Madeline sighed. “He’s good at that.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“If I had to handpick a family to pretend was mine for just one day, I was extremely glad it was this one.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“There was a serious opportunity here to do right by Pops, by all of my family. All I needed to do was find a wife and kids.”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under

“You mean to tell me—” “I really shouldn’t have told you.” “That my fiancée—” “She is definitely not your fiancée.” “—is going out with another man tonight?” “Didn’t she reject you? Twice?”
― Juliana Smith, Snowed Under