Fake Skating Quotes

“Everything was wrong if she wasn’t happy. Because Dani was sparkling eyes and contagious laughter. Dani was happiness.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“The rest of the world just disappears for you when you’re reading doesn’t it? Yes, thank God”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I had a cousin who neurotically made playlists for every walking moment of her life, and that slightly obsessive habit had rubbed off on me,”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I wanted you in fourth grade, when you launched me off that water pillow and broke two of my ribs,” he said, his eyes narrowed on me behind his glasses like he could still see us at the lake. “I wanted you in sixth grade, when I drove over your foot with my dad’s ATV. I wanted you when Mr. Pockets got hit by a car and you cried as hard as I did, I wanted you when you kissed the shit out of me in the shed, and now, God help me, I want you when you shattered my fucking heart to keep me from ruining my own future.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“The rest of the world just disappears for you when you're reading, doesn't it?"
"Yes, thank God.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I didn't care about the past or the future, because nothing mattered but the present. Her. This. Fucking us.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“P.S. MY BOOK SMELLS LIKE YOUR PERFUME AND IT’S DISTRACTING AS HELL”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I wished I didn’t know that her lip gloss tasted like cherries. Suddenly I’ve got a killer sweet tooth.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“God, her face. Richie was wrong. She wasn’t cute—she was fucking gorgeous.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“COLLINS— I DON’T KNOW IF YOU STILL INHALE THESE LIKE YOU USED TO, BUT I SAW THEM IN THE MACHINE AND THOUGHT OF YOU. —A”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I’m sorry,” I said. “For…?” I shrugged. “For bringing her up, I guess.” “Don’t be,” he said quietly. “My favorite thing to talk about.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“And, God help me, I’d dreamed of kissing her far too long for me to be strong. “Then come closer, Collins.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Better and worse don’t matter with us-they don’t-because it’s all the fucking better with you. And what the hell is simpler than that?”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“It didn’t matter that we were pretending, because the honest-to-God truth was that I was on the best date I’d ever had in my entire life. I was so screwed.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“The girl who’d laminated our decoders had left the chat, and now Dani Collins was just somebody that I used to know.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Alec: PLEEEEEEEASE?”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I sent: WHOA. COLLINS. I’m simply telling you the rumors that travel within these halls. I would never think to call myself that. Also… totally unrelated… I just walked into the library. Her head came up and she was grinning when she looked at me.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“It kind of made me feel like she thought I was a broken weirdo who need an intervention before my entire life was ruined.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“She had the coolest fucking eyes.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“She inspires me to be more.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“He remembers my gummy bear addiction."
..."I cannot see a bag if gummy anything without thinking of you.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I had a cousin who neurotically made playlists for every waking moment of her life, and that slightly obsessive habit had rubbed off on me to the point that I couldn’t deal with the harshness of reality anymore unless I rolled it around in music first.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“We had a massive test in calculus next week,”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Because I’d lived most of my life in an isolated little trio of three”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“And he was wearing glasses—dear Lord he looked good in those”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Because all I wanted was for him to be happy.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“This is so thoughtful. This is an act.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Greetings, girl-whose-mouth-I-like-to-kiss.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Better and worse don’t matter with us—they don’t—because it’s all fucking better with you.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“I don’t really care about your love life, but if you’re going to date, I want it to be someone like Alec, who looks at you like he knows how lucky he is.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating