People Watching Quotes

“With tears in my eyes, I smile up at the moon. Because I, Prudence Welch, against all odds, have fallen in love. Love waltzed into my tiny town, found my very doorstep, let himself in, and miraculously managed to find me in a home I've never left.

So, yes, Milo and I are in love.

And, no, we'll probably never admit it to each other.

But how wonderful and tragic and lucky is that?”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“Love waltzed into my tiny town, found my very doorstep, let himself in, and miraculously managed to find me in a home I’ve never left.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“Her face turns my new favorite shade of pink. Without thought I visualize measuring out red and white paint onto the back of my hand. I’d go slow, mixing them together until I had the exact color to match her blush.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“So…I’ll be your first,” she says proudly, smiling with brightly lit eyes. “You, Prudence Welch, are my first, in so, so many ways,”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“I’m already deeply, hauntingly, in love with you and I’m afraid. I’m afraid of you…What you could choose to do or not do with this exposed, inexperienced heart of mine.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“You can decide someone doesn’t have a seat at your table without hoping that they starve.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“It might make me sound like a selfish bastard, but I like that you’re careful with everyone else but me. I like feeling special to you, Prudence Welch. I like being your friend.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“she giggles for the very first time in my presence. I’m glad I was already on the floor when I heard it. That shit would’ve brought me to my knees.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“Do you have any more questions for me?” His eyes dip down as he takes in a slow breath. “Or can I kiss you now?”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“I wondered if I'll miss him the most when I find myself in the arms of another man someday. If my bones will cry out for him. I tried to convince myself that I won't. That my body will feel as perfectly designed to fit against another man as it does with Milo. I failed and repeated this step many times.

Deep in my soul I know that if someone were to ask me to be their wife someday, my first thoughts would be of Milo. Not wondering if he'd be coming back, because I can't afford that hope, but instead what he'd think of it all. If he would like the man down on one knee. If he would laugh at his jokes or find him handsome or think he was worth my time.

I'm terrified that I could go on to have a full life with a marriage, children, and even grandchildren, but my last breaths would be spent with the memory of Milo asleep on my chest.

And I reminded myself, over and over, how lucky I am to have found love. Even if it cannot stay. Even if I cannot follow. Even if it must come to an end.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“I'm new to it, sure, but I know love when I see it. Love has surrounded me all my life. Love has danced in my kitchen and mowed the lawn and painted back steps and tucked me into bed since I was a child. And there's no denying that look in Milo's eyes.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“It's odd, because we've only just met, but some part of me is surprised she doesn't know the answer. Surprised that she, this near-perfect stranger, doesn't already know everything there is to know about me. What's scarier is that some part of me wants her to.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“I’d never worried about living longer until I met someone I wanted to live a long life with.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“He says the things the rest of us are too afraid to because he doesn’t realize how bad they’ll sting. The things that call on our deepest insecurities. The truth.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“Imagine a home”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“It’s a visual reminder that these Sunday mornings”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“What is—and please feel free to really dig deep here before you answer—wrong with you?”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“This is going to be my new normal, I think to myself. All the people I love, who somehow manage to love me back, together in one place. Helping each other out, supporting one another, being a unit again.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“The three broken people raised in that house that eventually got out, some sooner than others.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“I desperately wish I could go back and tell that younger version of Nadia that it was never her job to make herself lovable. That Mom and Dad just weren’t capable of it, no matter how much she tried. And, hell, she tried.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching

“The night we met I realized that, no matter what happened, there was always going to be a before Julia and an after Julia. That my life, whether I liked it or not, was going to be forever split into two parts.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching