Waking Olivia Quotes

“Funny how everyone looks down on me for what I did, but they don't look down on themselves for being so fucking delighted to hear about it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“She grins, wide-eyed. "I do. That's why we're perfect together. You never speak and I never shut up. You're so lucky you found me.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I’ve been far from honorable for a long time,” I tell her. “And I’m not being honorable now either. I’m here because I love you. Because I’m so in love with you, I can’t see straight.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“It'd just be a little over a year. You could ask me to wait. you could ask me right now and I'd do it. Gladly. But you're not going to, are you?”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“At that moment, there was nothing in the entire damn world I wanted more than her. And it felt like there was nothing else I would ever wanted. It was insane and I'm taking it for the warning it was.
I need to stay away from her.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“To look at you and know that you made your choice and you didn’t choose me?”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Being attractive is the next best thing to a superpower. It's a get-out-of-jail-free card, causing men to overlook my many other terrible qualities. And I have so, so many terrible qualities.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Here are the things I love: I love the smell of winter coming in, I love the burn in my muscles as I sprint across the field and the icy air whipping through my lungs. And I love the boy behind me, the one who’s closing in fast. I love him so much that I slow my pace, realizing that, for the first time in my life, I want to be caught.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Something has changed inside me, flowered, without me noticing.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“My entire life is one long series of fuck-ups, of people I’ve hurt, and I don’t seem to be breaking the pattern.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“When did he become so important?”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“You did save her, Will,” my mother replies. “And she saved you.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I love her so much that it feels like there’s not even room inside me for all of it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“The things you think are so terrible? I love those things. That fragile part of you, the way you freeze when someone tries to hug you or compliment you or acts like they care—I can’t separate that from everything else now, so I love all of it. I should have told you that a long time ago.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Because of all the things in the world I love, that I have a duty toward, she is first. And she is the one I won’t give up.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I tell him I understand. I ignore, for the time being, the part of me that doesn’t. Because if he really cared enough, he’d just ask me to wait.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I wanted to tell her that I want all the same things, and want them only with her. I want a thousand boring nights in, sitting on a ratty sofa listening to her malign newscasters and make fun of their guests. That I want to spend my entire life keeping her safe, even if it means sleeping on the couch outside her room to do it. That I’ve never wanted anything in my entire life the way I want her, and the idea of giving her up makes giving up climbing pale by contrast.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“We walk out and the police say they have questions and Peter urges me to return to the office and for once I don’t have to defend myself, I don’t have to tell anyone to leave me alone. Will does it for me.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I’ve been with plenty of pretty girls. Jessica was hands-down the best-looking girl at my high school. But all of them felt … replaceable. Olivia, in my office, wasn’t replaceable. The need for her was sharp, urgent, painful, unlike anything I’d ever felt. At that moment, there was nothing in the entire damn world I wanted more than her. And it felt like there was nothing else I would ever want.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Olivia seems to see only the worst things in herself. She believes she deserves nothing from anyone, yet something about her makes me want to give her everything.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“She’s so pretty that pretty isn’t even the word for it. It’s something that makes me feel like I can’t breathe on the rare occasions I see her smile.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Except I'm not normal. I'm so far from normal that I doubt even the psychologists have seen one of me before.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Her mouth twitches. All of the trouble she's caused me so far feels worth it the moment I see her almost-smile.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“The minute those big green eyes of hers go even the slightest bit vulnerable I want to hand her my keys and sign over my paycheck.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Not show a hint of temper? Impossible. You’re on the verge of 'a hint' right now.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Olivia Finnegan is so pretty that you feel compelled to look at her even when you don’t want to. You want to memorize the delicate structure of her face, her full rosebud mouth. She’s so pretty that pretty isn’t even the word for it. It’s something that makes me feel like I can’t breathe on the rare occasions I see her smile.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“Will każe wszystkim nam kolejno się przedstawić. Jedyne imię, jakie zostaje mi w pamięci, to Betsy, ta, która od początku krzywo na mnie patrzy. Lepiej wiedzieć, jak się nazywa gęba, którą prawdopodobnie przyjdzie mi wkrótce obić.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia