Bittersweet Quotes

“But if you get discouraged…if you need a day off from trying, I’ll be here where you can find me.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. —P.J. O’Rourke”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“It's been...interesting."
"Aw." He actually rolled his eyes. "Interesting? That's the review I get? I'm pretty sure the earth moved."
"Well..." My cheeks heated. "You're the farmer. It's your job to notice the earth.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“He turned toward me wearing a typical, piercing Griff frown. It was so potent it should probably be its own word. Griffrown.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“She and I were a dangerous combination. We needed cautionary signs like the ones hanging in the tractor shed over the cans of diesel fuel. WARNING: COMBUSTIBLE.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Holy Cannoli. I was cuddling the world's grumpiest farmer.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Even in the midst of a bad decision, I could still live in the moment. And the moment was fine.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“My libido was like a Golden Retriever puppy, ready to jump all over him and lick his face.
Down, girl.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“To think of her as mine seemed like an impossible luxury. It’s the only luxury I’ve ever been greedy for.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Audrey’s appearance in my home had the same effect on my libido that springtime had on the deer living on our hilltop.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Apparently all the people who grew pristine organic food were beautiful themselves.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Not only did I have the hots for Griff, I had a crush on his family, too.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“I hate goodbyes. If there was such a thing as goodbye-a-phobia, I definitely had a bad case.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Best as I could tell, he was minding a big sterilizer full of jam jars on the stove. He had the tongs in one hand, but mostly he busied himself singing Technotronic’s “Pump Up the Jam,” and dancing around. “You are killing me with that song,” his twin sister Daphne complained. The two of them looked to be high school aged. “This is what I sing when we make jam.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“I had the loopy, impractical idea that we might just belong together for keeps.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“if you want to be happy again, you have to truly accept the things that aren’t ever happening. Everybody has their shit to get over. Like, I’m never having parents that give a fuck about me.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Silence fell again, and I thought it might swallow us whole.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Ruthie. If I wanted someone to nag me, I'd get remarried."
She rolled her eyes. "I don't nag. I suggest."
"I suggest you leave me be. ," Grandpa said.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“I was as good as resisting Griff Shipley as Homer Simpson was at resisting a donut.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“At the risk of freaking you out, because you don’t like it when I say these things…” He stole a glance at me and then returned his eyes to the road. “I love you, princess. You’re the sweet that balances out my natural tannins.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“This is why people cooked food-to create the perfect meal for a table like this-for people gathering together.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“football-playing chemist”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Then it was all over but the cryin’.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Every touch was a command, as if I’d been placed on this earth to pleasure him. Judging from the way my body responded to his touch, perhaps I had.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Fuck, Princess. You kill me. Every damn time.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“While I might be deep in lust with Griff, I’d already fallen head over heels for his family. Given the chance, I’d move right into his kitchen. I wanted to be one of the lucky Shipleys who called Ruth “Mom” and set that big oak table for twelve every night. I would play Frisbee with Dylan and braid Daphne’s hair.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“We have to pull the princess here out of the ditch and change her tire. Then warp speed her ass back to the Death Star so she can report that the rebels are mutinying.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“The hum of expectation still sizzled between us, but it would have to wait.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“It had been way too long since we'd touched, and I wanted to scale him like a tree and reacquaint myself with the strength of his limbs.”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet

“Griff was tied to his farm and his cows. I was going to build a foodie empire in Boston any minute now It was a relationship with no future. Correction - it was a ... sex fest with no future”
― Sarina Bowen, Bittersweet