Underneath It All Quotes

“If I had known I’d have a hot architect balls deep inside of me before the end of the weekend, I’d have made time for a pedicure.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“And though I probably couldn’t spell my own name, I knew with absolute certainty this wasn’t straight-up p-in-the-v sex. This was a spiritual event, and I, for one, wouldn’t have been surprised if some druids started chanting behind us.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“The way you're looking at me right now," he said, his voice turning thick, his words plucked one by one. "It tells me you have no idea that I'm lost to you, that I'm in love with you, that I can't fucking breathe without you.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I want you and I’ve known it for a long time, and I don’t want to wait anymore. I can’t. I can’t wait anymore.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I didn’t have the time to deal with man-children who owned a singular set of sheets and still called their hometown pediatrician for every sore throat.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“While this looks all nice and civilised, the two of you better get back upstairs. I know why you’re here, and you’re assholes. Get the fuck out.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Something I learned about diagnoses," he said, turning back toward me. "Unless you ask the right questions, you will always get the wrong answers. You missed something. Get in front of her. Couldn't be any worse than crying into your beer.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“None of my other friends knew enough about my inner workings—my hot mess, my control freak, my crazy Commodore Halsted stories, my good girl, my rebel with good causes—to serve as proper sounding boards, and I didn't want to start from scratch with them.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“through college and our twenties were dwindling away hurt.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Their lives were different now, I understood that,”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Most weeks, it was like talking to an empty room, usually waiting hours and sometimes days for a standard "omg we have to talk soon! heart you" response.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I expected geography would alter my relationships with Steph and Amanda, but I was stunned how quickly our old patterns faded.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Despite every mathematical improbability, we had been waiting for each other. Passing each other in coffeehouses, on the streets of Beacon Hill, and on beaches of Cape Cod, waiting for the moment when our universes collided. Until she fell into my arms. We belonged to each other.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Then again, strokes and dying fathers were bad news for normal people, and we stopped being normal people ages ago.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Dude, I can't get my ass beaten and then watch your moping. Chicks like to be chased. Like, 'rehab the house where you popped her cherry and wait for her to leave her fiancé then tell her stories about your love when she loses her mind' chased. Get on that. At least sac up and call her, but stop your fuckin' moping.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“the only easy day was yesterday.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Unless you ask the right questions, you will always get the wrong answers.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Yeah, that was going to happen right after I told my father I was having sex against walls.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I wouldn’t be against finding a dark corner in the next five minutes, but you’re a bit of a screamer.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Is this some kind of thorough, manwhorish customer service?”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“When did I give him the impression I was ready to go home with him? Was there a switch I flipped between talk of seesaws and soul mates? And he was evidently a manwhore. Only a manwhore would toss me in a cab and assume I wanted to go to his apartment for sex. Sex. I did not want that at all. Lots of sex. Good sex. Dirty sex. Hot sex. Matthew looked like very good sex.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“You’re such a caveman,” she hissed. “Why do I like that so fucking much?”
“It doesn’t have to make sense, sweetness. Just enjoy it.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I want this, whatever it takes, but I need you to stop pushing me away.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Oh my God,” she gasped, her hands seizing my hair.
I leaned back and aimed a hard gaze at her. “God has nothing to do with this. You want to thank someone, I’ll be right here, worshipping you and your outrageous body for the foreseeable future. God isn’t involved.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“I saw myself bending her over the desk, hiking up her dress, and taking her right now. And I saw her liking it.
I spent a full minute on that thought before groaning inwardly. I was a dick. An unprofessional, single-minded dick and I didn’t like small, curvy girls who left their mojo all over me.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

“Sometimes you met someone and immediately thought, “Wow. Let me take off your pants. And yeah, the shirt too.”
Or, in my case, “Let me throw myself down some stairs and rub up against your chest.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All