The Wedding Date Quotes

“Just because their standards are low does not mean that we should lower ours.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Anne was right to smash her slate over Gilbert’s head—fuck him for calling her Carrots.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Alexa looked down into her coffee again, gazing into the dark brown liquid like it was Dumbledore’s Pensieve”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“White men hated it when you reminded them of their privilege, she knew that all too well.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“He believed her. Just like that. So often, guys would jump in to defend other men when women said they’d crossed a line. It had happened to her over and over again.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“I’ve never seen you look at anyone or anything like you look at her. And you’re just going to throw all of that away for some bullshit reason? Because you’re too scared for something real?”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Alexa looked down into her coffee again, gazing into the dark brown liquid like it was Dumbledore’s Pensieve.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Does cookie dough ice cream go better with red or white wine?”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“They’d learned how to deal with two busy careers and a relationship, too; what the other person was like on an early Monday morning and a stressful Thursday night instead of just their idyllic weekends; that she never made the bed; that Drew always left the lights on.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Don't bring a sandwich to a buffet.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“As my friend Colleen always says, ‘Don’t bring a sandwich to a buffet.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“No offense, man, but don’t be such a fucking idiot. I’ve seen the way you look at this girl. I’ve never seen you look at anyone or anything like you look at her. And you’re just going to throw all of that away for some bullshit reason? Because you’re too scared for something real?”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“But not yet. Right now she needed to hug this whole weekend close to her chest and hold on to it tight before sharing it with anyone.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Don’t bring a sandwich to a buffet.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Oh boy, these cheese and crackers are exactly what I need right now’?”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“but … we hit a roadblock. Time will tell if it’s a
bump in the road or more of a brick wall.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“did it on purpose! I became a tattletale to our parents for everything I thought she was doing wrong. We barely spoke for the better part of a year, and even after that, our relationship was fractious and difficult for years. We didn’t really start becoming friends again until I was in college, and even then, it took years for us to be close.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“The people in the hills had too much influence. They were rich and white; the teens she was trying to help were poor and brown.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Just because their standards are low does not mean that we should lower ours.” Maddie backed into the parking spot on a side street that they’d found after ten minutes of circling. “And why do you care about your cleavage? What happened to ‘If you’ve got them, flaunt them’?”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“Her bladder disagreed. It increased the pressure and reminded her of all of that champagne she’d drunk and those bottles of water that had closed out the night. Oh God, she really had to”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“didn’t get through Berkeley Law School without being the only black person in the room a few hundred times. I just wanted to know what I was in for before I walked in.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“There was no point in telling the woman you were stuck in an elevator with for probably only a few minutes that you’d broken the heart of the nicest person in the world, the snowball that had started this whole avalanche, and you probably deserved all of the looks you’d get all weekend, right? It wasn’t like he’d lied to her; everything he said was the truth, just not the whole truth. It wasn’t like he’d made Josh or Molly out to be evil, had he?”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date

“know I’m the same skin color as Beyoncé, but me in her blond weave wouldn’t go over too well during city council meetings. Even though I work in Berkeley”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Wedding Date