A Love Letter to Whiskey Quotes

“I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway. Maybe for the thrill, maybe to cure our curiosity, or maybe just to lie to ourselves a little longer.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Because that’s what life’s about. It’s about paddling out and fighting the waves until you find the perfect one to ride home on.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There’s always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths — and they were my only release.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I saw him first, but it didn’t matter. Because he saw her.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Sometimes we’re more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don’t deserve them, or that they aren’t real, that they’ll disappear quickly and easily and we’ll be left in the ruins.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Whatever you choose, make sure it makes you happy.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“It took too long for me to realize I’d dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I’d broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I wasn’t sorry the first time I kissed you, even when you weren’t mine, and I’m not sorry I kissed you the other night, even when I wasn’t yours. Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him — not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn’t really hers to give in return.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“No, it does matter. Because I’m getting married.” “No, you’re not.” “Yes, I am!” Jamie stood, jaw tight. “You’re not marrying anyone but me.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he’d been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I am not sorry that i kissed you, I am only sorry that i kissed you when you were not mine to kiss!”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I lost you three years ago, I told myself I’d never let that happen again. It’s important to me to be with you, B. But I can’t be if you don’t let me.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Thinking back on it now, I loved the way it felt that night. My heart was broken — completely, utterly shattered — and I liked the way that pain felt. It reminded me I was alive, filled me with hope that what we had was real — even if it had technically never truly existed.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“You thought I would wait, and I thought you changed your mind.” Jamie moved to me then, slowly, as if he was waiting for me to stop him. Then, he bent at the knee to meet me at eye-level. “I could never change my mind about you.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I always loved that, the first sight of him, the first hit. It was a little jarring, like a slight burn, but the aftertaste was smooth, welcoming, like an old friend calling me home.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“You have to be mine after that,” he breathed. He was still inside me and the intensity was too much to think, but I forced my way through the haze. “I can’t.” “Fuck that,” he argued. “You can. You are.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“What have you been drinking, anyway?”

“Whiskey,” he answered easily, and a short laugh escaped my lips.

“Of course. I should have guessed.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

I shrugged, using a spoon to break up a large ice chunk before replacing the top on the blender and turning it on again. “Just makes sense. You’re practically whiskey on legs, anyway. The color of your hair, your eyes, the way you smell — it’s like your spirit drink.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I hated him, I loved him, I hated myself for loving him. I hated myself for letting him go, for letting him find someone else. I was furious, but the truth was nearly everything he’d said about me was true.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“One more weekend with Whiskey, and then I’d have to let him go.For good.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I couldn’t have gotten through all these years without you.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Turned out I had a rare, deliciously aged bottle of whiskey in my grip, but I slip it through my slick fingers and crash to the floor.
And I wasn't the one allowed to pick up the pieces.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“To some, whiskey is a crutch. It's a drug, it leads to addiction, it dulls the senses and damages the mind.
To others, whiskey is a medicine. A shot of bourbon can chase away what ails you, whethere it be a sore throat or a broken heart.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey