Dolly All the Time Quotes

“One thing about caretakers is they are never carefree. Without our cares, we’d just be takers like everyone else.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Are you saying he’s too good for you?” Gus asks. “Because I don’t think you’d say anyone was too good for me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I'd be honored if you'd raise your expectations for me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I am wearing everything very well. That is a top ten worst compliment of my life,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I don’t know where I’d put my dark moments if I didn’t have her to hold them for me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I want to wake up with him a million tomorrows in a row.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“It’s a miracle to teach a kid to do something new,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“It’s never the wrong season to set the oven to four hundred degrees, as far as my dad’s concerned”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“That it’s an act of generosity to share something as precious as your life with someone. Love’s taught me that”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“If you let me love you”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“You’ve dug into your role so deep—this whole oh-look-I-can-fix-it-all role. You don’t know who you are without it. So we stay here”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Are you saying he’s too good for you?” Gus asks. “Because I don’t think you’d say anyone was too good for me.” He smiles at me in a gotcha kind of way and gets out of the car. How strange it would be to want all the things I want for him for myself.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“He looks younger in a navy-blue T-shirt—no collar—washed enough times that it rests lazily on his shoulders. He smiles a half smile”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I think of my mother and how much she loved the careless way rich people treat valuable things. If carelessness is aspirational, my mother nailed it when she walked away from us, easily her most valuable things.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“One thing about caretakers is they are never carefree. Without our cares”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I love you. And not just in your kitchen.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Tell me what you said under the helicopter, and you can kiss me one more time,” I say. He smiles. He wants to pay me a compliment as much as he wants to kiss me. I smile back and I wait. “I said you take my breath away, more every time I see you.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“Thank you again for tonight,” he says. “I liked having you in my corner.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“If you let me love you, I’ll never leave you again. If I have to leave, I’ll take you with me.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“And sometimes it’s easier to take care of things than it is to ask for help.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I think you were put on this earth to make everything better.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“We’ve said it without saying it.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I love you in your kitchen too,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I love you in my kitchen,”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“for one night I was the princess. I was beautiful with the prince, and I am bedazzled from the inside out.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I feel a thousand possibilities playing out in the space between us—everything from the two of us in our pajamas, playing cards in a room just like the library from Beauty and the Beast to the two of us tangled up in his sheets.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I stop myself from explaining how I want to climb inside him and wrap myself around him all at once. That making love to him last night changed me in some fundamental way. I don't think I can go back to giving someone a little bit of myself.”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I wrap my arms around his neck. The relief I feel in this moment”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time

“I make us each a cup of chamomile tea. It’s hot for tea”
― Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time