The Shippers Quotes

“I think those of us who love love stories are junkies for that joyful, blissed-out feeling of anticipating the happily ever after that’s a guarantee of the genre.
All genres have their guarantees, by the way: Sleuths will solve the mystery, thrillers will save the hero in the nick of time, superheroes will vanquish the villains at last. Part of what we like about the genres we like is the anticipation of those guarantees. We like to see the mystery solved, and the hero saved, and the villains vanquished. It feels good.”
― Katherine center, The Shippers

“I’m telling you you’re my favorite person on this overcrowded earth. I’m telling you that I loved you my whole life long. I’m telling you I’ve had my own Operation Conquest going this whole time. And the person I was trying to conquer… was you.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“In my defense, though-how do you even begin to solve…your entire personality? Get into therapy? Confront your absentee father? Join a fight club?”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“There is no universe where you call me for help and I don’t come running.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“You can't force people to care about you. If you didn't matter to someone, you didn't matter.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“I'm changing the story of your life.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“Then, before we took our first step, Cooper reached down and clasped my hand. Then he said, “Be the unicorn.” And this time, I knew what he meant.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“Didn’t Cooper realize that nobody wanted to talk about math? Most people on earth had either (worst-case scenario) active PTSD from terrible math teachers growing up or (best-case) a pleasant, glazed-over disinterest. Math was the last subject on earth anybody should use for small talk.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“Audrey Hepburn quote in modern calligraphy that read The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“So I took a breath and just said it: “Finn Turner.” At the name, Cooper’s head fell forward in exasperation. And when he lifted it again, he looked right into my eyes and said, “That’s the worst idea you’ve ever had.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“feistier than the whole lot of us put together. She lived with us now, and she was cultivating antique roses in the side yard, and taking an art history class on the Impressionists, and baking her own sourdough every week. She’d founded an old lady workout group called the Screaming Mimis that walked three miles every day. She had a whole crew of travel friends who had nursed their husbands through long, final illnesses and were “ready to have some fun”—and they went to see Broadway shows, and took riverboat cruises, and spent random weekends in Marfa, Texas, drinking Tito’s and tonic at the hotel where they’d filmed Giant.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“Then Cooper said, “If I could go back and rewrite her life, I’d make it so she never even met my dad.” “But then you wouldn’t exist.” “That’s fine. I wouldn’t know.” “I can’t support that idea.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“And I’d learned a lesson from my dad a long time ago: You can’t force people to care about you. If you didn’t matter to someone , you didn’t matter.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“Cooper looked straight into my eyes. “That was me.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“She’s rooting for your relationship,” Cooper explained. “Ship comes from relationship.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“And isn't that what all the searching we do is for, in the end? Not just to see our lives, but to feel them.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“Finn was your first kiss?” Cooper asked, seeming baffled. “Do you want me to tell you about it?” I asked. “Absolutely not.”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers

“googled kayaking after he asked me,”
― Katherine Center, The Shippers