Hail Mary Quotes

“I shake my head, smiling and feeling a wave of tears of relief spring to my eyes. “My pleasure, Anand. May you be eternally blissful too.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“How do you know when you should do it?”

“How do you know you’re thirsty? How do you know you’re hungry? How do you know you’re alive? You just know, man.” He pokes me in the chest. “You just know.” A ring on a spinning display platform glistens underneath the glass. It’s a beautiful ring. It really is. But… “I can’t ask her with a Costco diamond,” I tell him. “Fuck no, you can’t.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“Yeah. Kids. Maybe. One day. If I find the right person. You know. One day.” I stare right at her. I couldn’t be any clearer about this if I spelled it out in Scrabble, or if I dragged my finger through the sauces on the plate and wrote the word YOU. But she looks a little nervous. So I ease up on the gas.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“Out here in the world, we’re normal. But in there, when the door shuts, you know what happens? You become mine. All mine. Every inch, every scream, every need. Whatever you want, I’ll give it to you. Whatever I need, it’s mine.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“Let me love you. Don’t make me wait.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“…One day?” He gives me a sort of cocky nod. “Sure. But you know where you can go in a day?” I shake my head. In the silence, I can almost hear his heartbeat, and mine, over the husssshhhhhh of the disappearing bubbles. “All the way to the moon.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“At first, I’m about to laugh. For about one second, I think I might be on Candid Camera or something. I mean, I can’t walk to the bathroom on an airplane without someone asking me to sign a cocktail napkin. I can’t get through Costco without someone asking me to sign their shopping list. Some kind of athlete?”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“Mary Cheese and caramel go together. Like you and me.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“here’s the thing about Frankie: He’s the only therapy dog I know who had to drop out of school due to a morbid fear of Crocs.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“About half of them have spider web tattoos on their elbows, and the other half look mean enough to have killed the tattoo artist before he even loaded the ink in the gun.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“I’d say there’s a woman who’s got me upside down. There’s a woman who makes me see the world a little differently. There’s a woman who’s got me on another planet. And I’ve got no fucking plans of ever coming back to earth again.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“But she gives me this eye. This champion eye. A winner’s eye. Cocky, like no eyes I've ever seen before. Tom Brady doesn’t have anything on this kind of cocky right here. My luck, this girl’s some UFC champion. Christ.”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary

“Stop insisting on clearing your head. Clear your fucking heart instead.” – Charles Bukowksi”
― Nicola Rendell, Hail Mary