Heat Quotes

“We can't change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“I like you because you are Kaitlyn—genuine, beautiful, brilliant, amazing Kaitlyn—not because you’re Kaitlyn Parker. And I’m in love with you because I can’t help myself.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?”
I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, “Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it.”
“I’ll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Kaitlyn Parker has popped Martin Sandeke’s spooning cherry.” I felt his smile grow just before he said, “It’s only fair. I hope to pop your forking cherry.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want us to be—"
"Smart," he finished for me, his resentful gaze softening as it moved over my face. " I know. You always want to be smart and do the right thing. But the problem is, Parker... I just want you.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“So I buried myself under my covers and cried like it was my job and I was hoping for a promotion.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Why did you hide? Did they make fun of you?"

I shook my head. "No. They ignored me. I think I hid because hiding made it my choice. You can't be ignored if no one can see you.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“You're callous because you have to be. Because otherwise you'd be bleeding all the time”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“I am glad you think I am all those things, and I believe you. But I’m not going to magically think I’m beautiful or perfect or talented just because you do. I have to get there for myself. I have to believe those things for myself—not because I have a boyfriend who values me and thinks I invented airplane neck pillows. If I base my self-worth on someone else’s opinion or view of me, then I will also base my lack of worth on that person’s opinion as well. And that has the potential of tearing me to pieces.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“He smiled, fitting his hand in mine. “Parker, I love you.”

“Sandeke, I see your love, and I raise you a secret handshake.”
― penny reid , Heat

“I don’t want my decisions to be about what will make me more appealing to the opposite sex. I want my decisions to be about making a difference, being a good person.”
“You do care,” he said flatly. “Everyone cares. Every single person on his earth wants to be desired, wants to be wanted.”
“Okay, let me rephrase then. I don’t want to care. I strive to not care.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“But what feels good isn't always what's good for me, and I'm not willing to settle for being with someone who sometimes treats me well. I'd rather be alone.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“It’s No-Touch Tuesday, Martin,” I breathed, reaching for his wrist. His hand stilled, and his face fell to my neck. “Fine. No-Touch Tuesday. But then tomorrow is going to be Wet-and-Wild Wednesday, and the next day will be Tongue-and-Teeth Thursday, and Friday…” He bit me, his teeth sharp—why were his teeth so sharp?!—then licked the spot. “Well, I think you can guess what’s going to happen on Friday.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“You don't need to befriend them in order to lead them.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Only if you stop using the F-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Yes. This is a party. I am in the laundry room reading.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Everything could be reasoned away or made to look silly with enough rational scrutiny. Faith, love, hope, lust, anger, sadness, compassion— everything.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Martin…I’m…” I shook my head, having difficulty finding words. They were hiding in all the closets of my brain, the little bastards.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“I’d high-five you if I could move my arm.”
“How do you think I feel? You’re already an athlete, I hurt in places I didn’t know existed.”
“You’re the idiot who wanted to learn how to row. Why, Kaitlyn, why? Why would you do that? Why would you ask that sadist to teach you how to row? Why?”
I tried to shake my heat but I couldn’t. “I don’t know. Shut your whore mouth. I just want to die.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“We can’t change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.”
― Penny Reid, Elements of Chemistry: Heat

“Then my sexuality bitch-slapped my guilt. Then my guilt sucker-punched my sexuality. I mentally took a step back, leaving them to fight it out amongst themselves, like a giant squid and a sperm whale in the depths of the ocean.”
― Penny Reid, Elements of Chemistry: Heat

“For better or for worse, our ceiling and our floor are initially judged by our ancestry.”
― Penny Reid, Elements of Chemistry: Heat

“Why do people care about each other? What is attraction? I can’t give you a list of reasons why I react to you like I do. This isn’t an equation to balance. You’re the one I’m always thinking about. It’s you. It just is.” “You”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“Women were more than the status of their hymen or their dress size.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“I'm not like that. I'm not going to enter a race I can't win.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“For better or for worse, our ceiling and our floor are initially judged by our ancestry. People expected me to reach for the stars.”
― Penny Reid, Elements of Chemistry: Heat

“If I base my self-worth on someone else’s opinion or view of me, then I will also base my lack of worth on that person’s opinion as well. And that has the potential of tearing me to pieces.”
― Penny Reid, Elements of Chemistry: Heat

“He's kind with me."

"But not with everyone." This wasn't a question. It was a statement of fact.

"No, not with everyone. But if you knew -"

"And you've fallen in love with a person who doesn't feel it's necessary to be kind to anyone else but you?"

I pressed my lips together and swallowed. She didn't sound judgmental or even upset. She sounded curious. It was always this way with my mother. Her curiosity was why she won every argument, and why people always listened to her and took her advice.

She was exceedingly reasonable. She was never malicious or pushy, never condescending or irritated. She was only curious. She'd poke holes in terrible proposals and theories with her curious questions until it was clear to everyone that the proposal or theory was garbage. But she'd never, ever come out and say it.

I'd learned that the best defense against curiosity is honestly.”
― Penny Reid, Heat

“like you get paid royalties every time you say it.”
― Penny Reid, Heat