Unexpectedly Expecting Quotes

“Fear isnt destiny. Its just a voice that sounds louder than it is.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“I love you. I've loved you since the bar. I've loved you since you sat down without asking and talked about a horse named Spicy Regret and I thought, I'm in trouble. I love the paint in your hair and the way you name cacti and the fact that you see through every wall I've ever built. I love you, and I'm sorry it took a Game 7 of the Conference Finals for me to say it where people can hear.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“I know she's right." The admission cost something physical — I felt it leave, felt the space it opened. "I've known she's right since the bar. Since she sat down across from me and started talking about Spicy Regret and I thought, This person is going to ruin me, and she did, Gator. She ruined every system I had, and what's underneath is better than anything I built, and I'm so terrified of losing it that I'm destroying it myself.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“I can't promise you something that's already true." He pressed his mouth against my hair. "You're Lou. You name paintbrushes and hum car dealership jingles and you painted a galaxy for a baby you were terrified to have. That's not someone who leaves. That's someone who stays so hard she changes the shape of the room.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“The early parenthood learning curve was vertical.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“Parenting is just showing up. Figuring it out. Loving someone more than your fear of failing them.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“Fear of losing something is not the same as not having it.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting

“Life is a series of men and institutions that dont know what they want.”
― Riley Keenan, Unexpectedly Expecting