Paper Hearts Quotes

“Let me explain. I used to tear through a book a day before I met you, and now I’ve read almost nothing in weeks.” “So I’m distracting?” I poke my tongue at him. “That’s all you got?” “You made me want my own story. That’s everything, Charlie. The whole damn point. You gave me something no one else could. Freedom…from myself. So don’t be nervous about making me happy, because you’ve already found a way to help me feel whole.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“And sometimes Christmas means a hotter-than-hell escort, who is so tall he could hunt geese with a rake, doing body rolls in his slutty little gray sweatpants. Well, deck my halls and jingle my bells, because Christmas is right here in front of me.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“Real love stands through the fire. It doesn’t run when things get hard. It doesn’t leave when the money disappears and the name gets tarnished.” Her eyes are shining now, bright with unshed tears. “You deserve someone who will stand next to you through anything. Not someone who flees when things get uncomfortable.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“Oh yeah, tough guy? Come on. I’ll give you the first swing. But you better kill me. Because when I swing, you die.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“I just don’t want you to see me as an escort. I mean, that’s why you keep coming onto me, right? Because you think I’m some sort of sex Yoda that’s going to get between your thighs and awaken you to a whole new world of magic and creativity?”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“If you only live to ensure everyone likes you, you’ll never find the people who love you. But people have to know you to love you, Charlie.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“I like you.” I pout at him.
“Oh, please. You can’t possibly know that yet.” He winks at me.
“I can, and I do.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“And maybe—just maybe—I can figure out how to hold both truths at once. The love and the lie. The comfort and the betrayal. Maybe I don’t have to choose.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts