Anything You Can Do Quotes

“I can’t help but feel a kinship with Sirius Black—except instead of being locked away with thousands of soul-sucking dementors, I’ve only got one, and he’s currently staring at me.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Roses are red, Daisy is you, I heard you came back, and I did too.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Haven’t either of you been with someone you’re so attracted to you can hardly stand it?”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“He’s met someone,” she said during one of our Skype calls in my second year of medical school. “Another demon?” “I think he really likes her.” “Watch out for a lobotomy scar, or the mark of the devil. It might be tucked beneath her hair.” “They’re coming home at Christmas so he can introduce her to our parents.” “Hold a mirror up to her and see if she has a reflection.” A”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Hello?” “Daisy Bell.” I haven’t heard his voice in 11 years. “May I ask who’s calling?” “I think you know.” “Lucas Thatcher. I don’t recognize the number. Am I your one call from jail?” “I called from a payphone. I don’t want you tracing this.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I notice a group of female speedwalkers stopped on the street corner, gawking at Lucas. Oh really? All four of them needed to tie their shoes at the same time? It’s called a double knot, people.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I’m not shocked she remembers our rivalry. I think the Bush administration was briefed about our antics at one point.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“He turns to look both ways before crossing the street. He doesn't do it because it's what his mother taught him - I know he's looking for me, ensuring i'm not waiting with a souped-up Ford Bronco, prepared to mow him down”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I don’t possess the willpower for long-term grudges.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Another bright spot for me is that men regularly mistake my exhausted ramblings and honest deprecation as humor and personality.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“If I’m going to go back into that living room and converse with people I haven’t seen since high school, I need to be under the influence. Like an adult.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I’m amused by the fact that we’re feeding and caffeinating each other like an old couple.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Lucas?”
“Yes?”
“I think you should ask me tonight.”
“Daisy?”
“Yeah.”
“Be quiet so I can ask you now.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I don’t know if Lucas has a heart, but thanks to a fateful pantsing incident in middle school, I know he is a man.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I need to Amazon Prime some sage and perform an ancient cleansing ritual under a full moon in the center of town.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“At some point over the years, a woman must have taught him how to color coordinate, presumably before he chopped her up and turned her into jerky.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“What are you doing?” he asks. “What everyone does in these situations—I’m turning inanimate objects into friends. Tom Hanks had Wilson, and I have Gary.” I hold up the blue nitrile glove I craftily stuffed with cotton balls. With a Sharpie, I drew Gary a face. Lucas smiles for a fraction of a second before turning and shaking his head. “We saw that,” Gary and I say.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I laugh loudly and aggressively. I need her to shut up and go have her baby somewhere.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“For 18 years, I loved you.
Now, I've loved you for 28.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I guess you were right—the only people who don’t know Lucas loves Daisy are Lucas and Daisy,” my mom says, and Mrs. Thatcher agrees.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“You went on and on about how excited you were to move away. You couldn’t wait to get out of Hamilton and get away from me. I got the message. Loud and clear. It might’ve been the first time in our lives that one of us actually took a hint, ha. I went to Stanford, ready for a fresh start, but instead I spent my entire freshman year thinking about transferring to Duke. I didn’t join any clubs or make those lifelong friends that end up being your groomsmen. I hung out in my dorm room and listened to those CDs you used to make for Madeleine. (I stole most of her collection before I moved.) There was something comforting about listening to the songs you’d handpicked, even if they weren’t for me.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“I never told you I applied to Duke. I got in with a full-ride, same as you, but then I overheard your conversation with Madeleine before prom. You went on and on about how excited you were to move away. You couldn’t wait to get out of Hamilton and get away from me. I got the message. Loud and clear.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Would it have hurt more or less if I’d just sent that first email?”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“There is nothing Lucas Thatcher doesn’t excel at and I find myself appreciating just how adept he is at mouth-to-mouth combat.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Look at us discussing taxes and not having wild bouts of hate sex.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“If I want to reach him, I’m going to have to try a little harder. And I will. Because for 28 years, Lucas tried hard for me.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“You listen here, Lucas Thatcher. I hate you, but you’re going to kiss me. You’re going to kiss me and you’re not going to stop.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“That’s a little too much denim for me.” “He’s good-looking! In some parts of the world they call that a Canadian tuxedo.” “Well in my part of the world they call it a virginity force field.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“Sure, he’s no longer the scrawny Lucas from a decade ago, but even with his new Body by PubertyTM, he has to have calculated the risk in playing a game of sensual chicken with me.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do

“What’s your game plan, Daisy? We can’t do this dance with every patient for the next six weeks.” “You are absolutely right. Here’s a plan: you give your resignation and I go on with my life, happier than ever.” “You have one hand—” “Lucas, you of all people should know how much can be accomplished with only one hand.”
― R.S. Grey, Anything You Can Do