Truly Quotes

“It was easy to love your idea of someone - to fall hard for their very best self. The question was whether, once you had to spend some time living with their worst self, you could bear to be with them anymore.”
― Ruthie Knox , Truly

“Maybe when you loved someone, you just let yourself be you. You let them see you. And you saw them. Maybe that was all there was to it.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“He kissed her like they were too young to know how to kiss yet, all the while sinking into her body and withdrawing, a dirty secret happening below their waists.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“He kissed her then. He had to kiss her, to try out every way he could move his mouth over hers—hard and soft, deep and reverent—and he had to move his tongue against hers and cup her breast in his hand because he was so fucking grateful and so fucking lost.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“Her heart squeezed hard, her inner asshole chastising her, Stupid, stupid, and then it happened all at once. A bright flash of anger—at herself, at every movie and TV show and magazine, every insidious cultural message that had ever told her that her body sucked. It was all a bunch of lies, and she knew that. She knew it. But here she was, letting it ruin everything. Stop”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“She was in awe of him, impressed by his lack of fear, smitten with his bee-geekery.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“When he lifted his gaze, it got stuck on her breasts for an uncomfortable period of twelve to fifteen years. “Ben,” he told them. This offense was harder to forgive. Men had been addressing her breasts since she was thirteen. Her breasts had yet to respond to this treatment.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“Just dinner,” Ben said. “And not some kind of perverted thing where I clock you on the head when your back is turned and sell you into white slavery.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“Seeing but not speaking was how her family rolled. They needed a Latin motto that meant If we ignore it, maybe it will go away.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“She could tell the difference between fantasy and reality. If life ever gave her another opportunity to make the choice, she knew which one she would choose.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly

“He was a terrible white knight, but she didn’t seem to care.”
― Ruthie Knox, Truly