Best Offer Wins Quotes

“If I'd learned anything from my parents' fucked-up marriage, it was that making the other person think they're in control when they're really not is often the easiest way to win a fight.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“Time really is a motherfucker—and it has never once been on my side. I have been racing against something, or toward something for as long as I can remember. Racing to grow up and get away. Racing against deadlines. Racing to make enough money. To start a family. To find the house. To feel like I’ve finally made it. To feel like I can finally just live.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“wants”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“Ah yes”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“At home”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“She rolls her eyes. “You’re always wound so tight”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“That is some good shit right there.” He laughs dryly. “Yeah”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“The payout on the other side—once the city’s hottest restaurants have opened a few blocks away”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“Are we feeling spicy this morning?" Shannon asks. "I think we've got a spicy bunch here!"
... I do not know what gave her that impression.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“blue”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“This, I've gathered, is one of the shitty parts about having children: if your kid makes a best friend, you have to figure out a way to tolerate their parents, no matter how much they suck.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“I know I'm not supposed to care about gender, or even acknowledge it as anything more than a social construct, but I really would prefer a girl.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“But when you're staring down the barrel of turning thirty-eight, you can't afford to take any chances.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“We'd debated "Gunshots or fireworks?" almost as frequently as "Mexican or Thai food?”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins

“A surge of hope, that familiar poison, makes my heart stutter.”
― Marisa Kashino, Best Offer Wins