Engagement and Espionage Quotes

“I shivered, also moving closer, irritated by the layers of clothes between us. "You're such a good teacher, you fell for your student." "Yes, I did." His beard tickled my neck as he sucked my earlobe into his mouth. “And I continue to fall, daily.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Talking, I was beginning to suspect, was the root of all evil. The ease of it in particular was an issue. Talk it out. Talk it over. Talk it through. Useless. If more folks thought it out, thought it over, and thought it through instead of talking, then the world would be less cluttered with opinions and assholes." Cletus Winston”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“she held a part of my soul. When we spoke or touched, that piece returned home, and the rest of my soul rejoiced at the reunion.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“You have a big heart. I would never trade your mammoth, irrationally generous heart for a smaller, more frugal one. I love every square kilometer of it.” A laugh tumbled from my lips and I lowered to the couch. “Really? It’s that big?” “It should have its own zip code. And it’s my third favorite thing about you.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“If we allowed folks to pick fights whenever they experienced unruly emotions, then everyone in town would walk around with a black eye.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“If you can’t hold your temper in society, then you don’t get to be part of society. Those are the rules.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Make choices that allow you to sleep at night.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“She breathed a little laugh, stepping closer, her other hand coming to my jaw. “You are one in a million.” “And you are one of a kind.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“We were still at the beginning, our beginning, and I'd never been as truly happy in my entire life as I lived and breathed and endured during the moments we spent together.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Be suspicious of folks who tell you what you want to hear.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“the truth, that being in love means my beloved takes precedence over even my own comfort, persnickety future mother-in-law notwithstanding.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.” “It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.” ― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“I love you so much, and I miss you. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, Cletus Winston.” “I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, Jennifer Sylvester.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Where were his dubious morals when I needed them?”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“One of my favorite pastimes—for the undeserving—is ruining enjoyable activities, destinations, and/or goods with facts. If you dig deeply and scrutinize enough, everything enjoyable can be made either problematic or disgusting. Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful, wonderful phenomena.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“What’s the difference between the Emergency Lasagna and the Lasagna Emergency?” “One fixes an emergency, the other causes an emergency.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.” ― Lord Byron, Selected Poems”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“A marriage can be a mountain shrine, or it can be a garbage heap. At the end of the day, garbage or shrine, it’s still yours. And nothing is quite as difficult as letting go of what’s yours.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“It’s not like this country makes it easy for women to leave abusive relationships. No matter what, she was going to be judged. And it’s not just the prejudice of the community, there’s also the sense of failure in yourself, the question of your own judgment. If I was dumb enough to marry this person, can I be trusted to do anything right? Leaving is hard, admitting failure is also hard.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“In a way, I felt for her. Diane Donner wasn’t a bad person, she was just a terribly flawed person. But then, weren’t we all?”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“I wonder now if he said such a thing because men who are good with their hands threatened him, made him feel like less, so he tore them down. In retrospect, that seems to be his modus operandi.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Self-improvement is not something that should ever be ridiculed, no matter how clumsy the attempt.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“It was just as easy to be beige around stubbornly ignorant folks as it was to be colorful around those with a thirst for knowledge and truth.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart.” ― William Butler Yeats”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“I seasoned my coffee with molasses and apple cider vinegar, and returned to the table, picking up the newspaper once more.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage

“marriage can be a mountain shrine, or it can be a garbage heap. At the end of the day, garbage or shrine, it’s still yours. And nothing is quite as difficult as letting go of what’s yours.”
― Penny Reid, Engagement and Espionage