Rainy Day Friends Quotes

“Started to go to the gym,” she said. “You know, to work off some of the baby fat. Only I couldn’t find my membership card and a new one was ten bucks. And since a doughnut and coffee was only three bucks, guess who saved seven bucks this morning?”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Sometimes the best thing in life is finding that one person who knows all your mistakes and weaknesses and still thinks you’re completely amazing.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Anxiety Girl, able to jump to the worst conclusion in a single bound!”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“But the important thing here is to remember to practice self-care in times of stress. Take a walk, paint a picture, murder someone, burn the body, and clean up the crime scene.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“If overthinking burned calories, I’d be dead.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“A haiku about getting out of bed: No no no no no. No no no no no no no. No no no no no.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“why does the word ‘pussy’ equate to weakness, when even the slightest flick to a guy’s ‘balls of steel’ sends him to his knees—but vaginas can push out an entire human being?”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Anxiety is having 99 problems and 86 of them are made-up scenarios that might never happen, but you stress about them anyway.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“I've been scared plenty of times. What I've never been is fearless. If you can run into a battle unafraid, you're not courageous, you're just a dumbass. It's knowing the price you're going to pay and being willing to pay it anyway that makes you brave.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“I know we're supposed to be grateful for all the mistakes we make, but mostly I'm just grateful that thoughts don't appear in bubbles over our heads.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch. I call it lunch.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“When life knocks you down,” she said to Lanie after getting yelled at by a very rude customer, “calmly get back up, smile, and very politely say ‘You hit like a bitch, bitch.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“And in the same vein,” she said, “why does the word ‘pussy’ equate to weakness, when even the slightest flick to a guy’s ‘balls of steel’ sends him to his knees—but vaginas can push out an entire human being?”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“But the thing was, love wasn’t in the bouquet of flowers or the romantic, candle-lit dinners. It was in the everyday stuff, like knowing when your person was tired and needed help, understanding what made them tick, what to do to soothe and comfort.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“I don't have a nervous system, I am a nervous system...”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Most of my wrinkles are from laughter, except for these right between my eyebrows. These are my 'WTF' lines and those suckers are deep, all given to me by our family dinners.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Not despised. Despised is a little strong. It implies that I’d unplug your life support to charge my iPhone, so I save that word for things like chia seeds, infomercials, and slow walkers in the aisles of the grocery store.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“What does a sign on an out-of-business brothel say?” He beamed. “Beat it, we’re closed.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“the good Lord put alcohol and carbs on this planet for a reason and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let Him down.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“sometimes adulthood felt like the vet’s office and she was the dog excited for the car ride—only to find out the destination.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Dessert doesn't go to the stomach, dessert goes to the heart.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“So lost in her he couldn’t remember his own name. Only hers…”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Be quick or be hungry.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“I’ve learned that life is a crapshoot, and at any moment someone can walk into it and change it forever.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“And now he had her in his arms, this amazing, prickly, suspicious, hardheaded woman that he was falling for in spite of himself because she was also sweet and kind and had the biggest heart of anyone he’d ever met. Falling hard. It was going to take a lot to convince her that he was a good idea, although he was pretty sure her body might’ve already made its decision. He had no idea what it would take to persuade the rest of her.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“It was going to take a lot to convince her that he was a good idea, although he was pretty sure her body might’ve already made its decision.

He had no idea what it would take to persuade the rest of her.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“He hadn’t seen it coming, he hadn’t seen her coming, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t recognize a good thing when he saw it.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“So matter of fact. So confident. Not cocky, just very sure of his abilities. She wondered what that utter lack of self doubt was like. She’d sure like to know.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“Damn bottle of Jack… She’d kissed her boss’s son.

And she’d liked it.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends

“That’s the second time you’ve said you’re hard to love and it’s one hundred percent wrong. You’re not hard to love, Lanie.”
― Jill Shalvis, Rainy Day Friends