Never Sweeter Quotes

“I know because when I offered to help you move in you looked at me like you were just waiting for the punch line to a joke I wasn’t telling. And that’s what bullies do to people. They don’t just hurt you or make you feel bad for five minutes in high school . They create the backbone of every friendship you try to have from then on. They change your life forever.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“That is fucked up. That fuck is so upped it might never get down again.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“You don't owe me your love. You didn't owe me a polite yes. It was not on you to let me down gently and somehow ward off punishment I was fucking stupid enough to think you deserved.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“She ran out on me because I have a can of Pringles in my pants.” “Well, what the hell were you doing keeping them there?” “No, Letty. No, honey. Not literally Pringles.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“people can be two things at once. They can grow fond of you and think of you as a sweet person and still want to keep treating you like shit.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“See, I thought I had figured out what I could do to make this whole thing right. ... But then I got to the end of your street, head all fucking full of how forgiving you would be, and it just hit me hard in the gut. I was doing all that shit for me. So that I could be a different person, a better person, a person worthy of someone like you. I wasn't thinking about you. I've never thought about you. ... I want you to make things okay for me. When I need to think about what would make things okay for you.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“I made that happen to you, Letty. I made you take the road marked FOREVER WARY OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, instead of the one you should have taken.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“Our lives are forever changed because I was too much of a coward to really go for...to really..to really be who I wanted to be.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“She heard something crack and splinter the second he got to that last word. But it took her a second to realize the cracking and splintering came from somewhere inside herself. That thick layer of granite she had carved around her heart had just developed a fissure, and things were starting to leak through. Bad things, like hopes and dreams.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“But most of all I’d like to thank the twelve-year-old me, for not giving up. I did tell you it would get better.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“I know because when I offered to help you move in you looked at me like you were just waiting for the punch line to a joke I wasn’t telling. And that’s what bullies do to people. They don’t just hurt you or make you feel bad for five minutes in high school. They create the backbone of every friendship you try to have from then on. They change your life forever.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“Mostly because Lydia said after a long silence, "Holy shit. We are living in a Nicholas Sparks novel."
"Exactly," she said from between her knees. "And I'm so not okay with that.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“Yeah. Also there was that one time I climbed in the window when you were sleeping and watched you creepily from a corner. Don’t worry though, I’m the hero of this story so it was totally romantic.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter