The Best Worst Thing Quotes

“Time was funny like that. Slow and steady. A bit of a drag. Fast as a whip.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“What’s crazy is, it doesn’t even sound that bad to me. Like, when I talk through it, it’s just my life. It never felt like a choice. Every time something bad happened, I just pushed harder. I had to keep going, you know? Because if I slowed down, then I’d have to …” “Feel something?”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“Do you have any idea what it was like, loving you? Every day, all I wanted to do was talk to you. Walk by your desk. Make you laugh. I couldn’t get enough. I never wanted it to end.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“I don’t have a time machine, Nicole. I can’t give you the do-over you want. Can’t give you back your twenties, or make it so you never left New York, never married Gabe, never left your job. Can’t fix the hell that you went through, or the doctors or lawyers or people you loved who let you down. But I can be here with you now. And I can tell you with every bone in my body that I am absolutely, one hundred percent all in. That I am not scared. That I would pick whatever absurd thing we’ve got over anything else, every single time.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“Yes! I’ve loved you the whole time, Nicole! I’ve loved you for years! I could never figure out how to make it stop!”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“All those years, I just wanted to buy you a drink. Take you to dinner, make you laugh, talk to you for as long as I possibly could, then do it again and again until I knew every annoying, horrible, deal-breaking thing about you. All I wanted was a chance to do this. And I’d rather fight with you ten times a day than go back to the way things were.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“This summer—it was the best”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“I had a feeling that you were going to be the man of my dreams”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“A whole summer of heartbreaks”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“But they never want to know what it feels like. Nobody wants to hear about pain they can’t make go away.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“You know how when you read”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“You know how when you read, you’re just kind of floating? Like, you can feel your legs under the covers and your hands on the pages, but you’re not quite there? You’re halfway between your own bed and some other world, and everything blends together, and you kind of just … hover? You’re kind of just … nowhere?”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“Nicole was about to protest—about to race back to the sand and steal both their towels and bundle herself up—when she decided that, at the very least, she could do this one silly thing. That, at the very least, she could shut her mouth and close her eyes and try to care a little less about the dumb, rigid rules that had never managed to keep her safe, anyway. And so she did. She watched and she waited and she held her breath and she closed her eyes and she heard the wave roll itself back and roar itself forward and when it came for her, rough and loud and unstoppable, she simply slipped beneath it, and the whole world warped into a quiet, soft, dizzying nothingness—an endless sea of deep, wavy echoes that swirled from miles below the surface, flooding her floating limbs and her wild lungs and her wide open wounds. And for those ten-or-so fleeting, infinite seconds, she did not think or wonder or worry. She did not care or plan or panic. She was—for the first time, maybe ever—weightless. And when she came up for air, at least for a little while longer, she stayed that way.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“What have I ever done,” he said, “to make you think I needed you to be anything other than exactly who you are?”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“They’d written a love story”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“Nicole shook her head, then finished dragging herself down the hall. Her body, thin and bent and folded—like a rejection letter, like a piece of junk mail.”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“To fantasize about watching said blob transform your work-obsessed”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“Outside”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing

“I could never,” she said”
― Lauren Okie, The Best Worst Thing