We Can't Keep Meeting Like This Quotes

“When you're in love, whether that love is platonic or romantic, you get to be the fullest version of yourself, uncertainties and mistakes and all.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“You know better. You're so mature.' Now I'm wondering if maybe those compliments took something away from me. Not anything dramatic, like my entire childhood, but the ability to try things out. To fail.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“But after a while, you grow weary of beautiful.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“I am fine. I am great. I am the coolest of cucumbers. I have taken the chillest of pills”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“If I have time, I can schedule a panic attack right before the cake cutting.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“He's been bumping my hip the whole game, winking at me, gazing at my mouth. It's the kind of attention I've always liked–people making it so obvious they're into you that you don't have to drive yourself wild with anxiety trying to decipher their feelings.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“And sometimes the world is terrible, and love stories... They make it feel less heavy.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“Rowan,” says the girl, and the guy whose mother just got married introduces himself as Neil. I’m not sure how long he and Rowan have been together, but they can’t seem to stop touching each other.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“My anxiety-brain is never content to stress over one thing when it could be stressing over five.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“Wait. I don’t want you to get in trouble for waking anyone up.” “I won’t. I’m up in the tower.” “The tower,” he says thoughtfully. “Right, how could I forget? The first time I met you, you said, ‘I’m Quinn and I live in a castle.’ ” “I can’t imagine introducing myself any other way.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“Noelle, stop.” I nudge her with my shoulder. “You are a fucking delight. Of course we want you here.” “What Quinn said,” Julia adds. She visibly exhales. “Okay. Excellent. Sorry. I have really bad social anxiety. Like… do you ever get home from hanging out with people and immediately start analyzing everything you did and convincing yourself all of it was completely wrong? I’m positive at any given time that eighty percent of my friends don’t actually like me.” “Try ninety percent,” I counter, and she laughs. “I have anxiety too. I take medication for it, actually, and I’ve been in therapy, too. I don’t go as often anymore, but it helps.” Noelle nods like talking about therapy is the most normal thing in the world, and it should be. “Me too!” And she holds her hand out for a therapy high five. “I’m not even going to stress about how dorky it was to do a therapy high five.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“Neil and Rowan exchange a look. “It took a lot to get here,” he says, and I get the sense there’s a deeper story there, one that isn’t the kind you tell during a first conversation with someone.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“We can't keep meeting like this.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“I cross and uncross my legs so many times it must look like I'm doing Pilates at best and a seductive chair dance at worst.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“He "figured himself out" in college, the way people always say they're going to do.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“That voice. It's a time machine of familiar longing, tugging me back.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“I can barely commit to a skin-care regimen. I'm not sure how to commit to a major.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“I assumed I could show up and that would solve everything, but that’s not what a grand gesture is about, is it? It’s never one big gesture. It’s a series of small ways to let someone know you care about them.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“Is Meg Ryan a frightening woman whose actions—using her journalism job to track down Tom Hanks’s address after hearing him on a radio call-in show, spying on him and his child playing at the”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

“our eleven-year-old cat Edith on my chest. Lady Edith Clawley—so named because of Asher’s Downton Abbey obsession”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, We Can't Keep Meeting Like This