The Offer Quotes

“I think sometimes when you love something too much, you’re that much more aware of how much you have to lose”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Because people like to hold onto their ideas of what you are and who you are. They put you in a box and no matter how hard you try to show them what you’re really like, they can’t wrap their heads around it. They won’t. They only want you to be a certain way, the way they see you. To change that messes with their heads.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“No matter how much you change, some people will always view you as you were at a certain time of your life.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Because, when you invite someone in and they leave, they take a part of you with them. It ruins the foundation. Don’t you see? It’s damaging when you pull the bricks out and the whole building collapses.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Sometimes I feel life is just one episode after another of trying to find another way. I wonder what happens when you discover there is no other way this time.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Because he was so, so wrong about hearts and buildings being different. They are the same. They are structures that keep us safe, that shield us from the elements. And the minute they start to falter, everything else is at risk. A heart can be condemned, just as a building can be. A heart can be destroyed by a sledgehammer disguised as rejection, by a bulldozer masquerading as a careless word. A heart can be blasted to pieces and ruined to the ground.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“I adore you. I want to spend every minute with you. I want to spend my future with you. But I’m a man of a past I have yet to shake, even though I’m working on it. You’re bringing me out of the past and into the future, where I belong.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“I know you’ve been burned. But I’ve been burned too. Maybe our ashes can make something beautiful together.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Bramtastic.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“You really want me to like you, don’t you?”
He smiles, dimples and everything. “Oh, you like me. You just don’t know it yet.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“He grins. “Sweetheart, you wouldn’t know what to do with my dick even if you tried.”
“I most certainly would!” I blurt out, unable to help myself. I regret my words immediately.
There’s one hell of a long, mortifying second as he slowly raises his dark brow, a twinkle in his eye. “Oh really?” he muses, smile dancing on his lips.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“No one is looking out for you or your child but you.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Maybe it was love or maybe it was just loss,”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“You know what your real problem is, sweetheart?”
“What?” I ask, wanting to know and scared of the answer.
“You’re totally underfucked,” he says, his voice dropping a register. He leans in closer. “And I’m the one who can tip the scales in the other direction.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Sometimes it’s the easiest, most simple things in life that bring you the most joy. The good, pure kind of joy that just makes you feel human and proud of it.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“In my experience, love is a destructive force, tearing hearts to shreds and forcing people to pick up the pieces. Even the best love stories are violent tales.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“I’m drunk. Everything is comfortable. Except I wish I had a cheeseburger. I would eat it and use it as a pillow. Or maybe use it as a pillow and then eat it.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“But knowing your wall is just as thin, don’t feel like you have to be quiet when – if – you ever bring a man over. I don’t mind. I like to listen.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“I don’t tell him this though. I don’t dare. I keep these feelings – I love you, I need you, I crave you – and the fears – you’ll break me, you’ll wreck me, you’ll condemn me – all to myself.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Once you go Bram, you won’t give a damn.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Given the lack of sexual activity in your apartment and your refusal to take even one peek at my knickers, I’m curious if you’ve ever had sex before. I mean, I know you have a daughter but you hear about these virgin births all the time.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Your young heart is a wild, elastic thing. Now, I fear that age and time and experience stretches it too hard, too far, and it will never snap back.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“I also had another motto: Fool me once, shame on me. You won’t fool me twice.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Obviously dick was involved.” “Hashtag dick.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Perhaps he thinks single moms are crazy. In some ways, we kind of are.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Is this going to be like ‘Indecent Proposal?’” she asks. “Because Robert Redford loses at the end.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“There was a time when I used to walk into the room and own it, or at least believe in what I was offering, but I hadn’t felt that confidence in a long time.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Oh, you like me. You just don’t know it yet.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Language,” I admonish him. “The dirtier the better,” he says, loving it. “All she knows is we’re talking about carpets. Speaking of carpets…” His eyes drift down to my jeans.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer

“Sweetheart, when you go out looking like a bloody movie star, the kind that young boys put on their walls and wank off to inside of a sock, you’re going to be hooking up. You may not know it yet but,” he waves at me with his fingers, “you’re giving the fuck me vibe.”
― Karina Halle, The Offer