In the Unlikely Event Quotes

“Moral of the story: clutching something desperately doesn’t mean you’re going to keep it. You might just kill it.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Isn’t that the essence of love? Find someone worth killing for? Someone with the power to ruin you?”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.” —A.S. Byatt”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“You’re the four seasons, Rory. And I promise to be your shelter in the winter. To bask in you in the summer. To crash into love with you in spring like it’s the first time we’ve met. And when you fall? I promise to always pick you up.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“clutching something desperately doesn’t mean you’re going to keep it. You might just kill it.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“There wasn’t one moment in time, from the second we met, that you weren’t mine. Just like I’ve always been yours.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“it was never fate. It was never luck. I demanded to have you at my disposal Aurora Belle Jenkins. You were a part of a package deal. it's not fate. it's us. From the start to finish. Twisted, screwed, obsessed, destructive, wonderful us.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Loving someone is willingly accepting that they can destroy you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“I’m not doing this out of fear or desperation or because my conscience won’t allow me not to try. I’m doing this of my own free will. Because he makes my reality better than my dreams. Because I am so painfully aware that we will all end up like Glen and Kathleen one day. We come from dust and return to dust. But while I’m here, on this planet, breathing, living, I want to do this alongside the person who makes me laugh. Who loves me unconditionally”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Life is too short not to kiss the one you want.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“I loved you when you hated me, I loved you when I thought you were indifferent to me, and I loved you when you were on the fence about me. But when I realized you loved me back? All bets were off. The world kept spinning. Days went by. Things changed – other than one thing, my love for you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Have you ever been in love?” I lick my lips.
“Ask me that question tomorrow before you go.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Want to know if you love someone? Watch them suffer and see how much it tears you apart. Because when you were down, when you were hurt, Rory, every fiber of me burned right along with you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“But villains are just misunderstood heroes.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“A NOTE FROM THE CHOCOLATE BAR Best. Day. Ever.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“It’s on. She’s here, and she is angry, and she is funny, and she is all mine. Sweet and thoughtful and feisty – the perfect combination. Shiny Boyfriend can do nothing about it but sit back and watch.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“It’s not the right time to be together, I agree. But if we meet again, under any circumstances, any time in the future, we’re making this work, Rory. Feck spouses. Feck boyfriends and girlfriends. Feck the world. If kismet happens, we are letting it happen, no matter what.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Weakness, hate, desire,
How I’d love to light your soul on fire,
In a room full of pretty lost girls and bad broken boys,
You will find me, dip me in ice, and drown all the white noise,
I want to see the world through your eyes and fall in love,
But most of all, I am frightened you don’t really exist,
Because then my fairytale has no beauty,
Just a sad, lonely beast.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“He waves me off, laughing now. “That was a minute ago. It’s time to move on. Don’t let the little things in life bother you, yeah?” Crazy as it sounds, I get what he means. Life is too short to get caught up in the small things.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“with you, I chased harder”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“She loves me, and I love...
I love chocolate bars. Love is like that, don't you feel? deadly, kind of. The more you prolong and stretch it like a leather leash, the more painful when it finally snaps and hits you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“You burn under my fingertips, Rory. How do I give you up?”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“he feels like he's never left my side. Like I carried a tiny part of him with me from the moment I was born, and now that he's here, we can fit the part I kept with the rest of him, like finishing a puzzle.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Just because you don't like the fact that you are going to sleep with me doesn't mean it's not going to happen. And just because we've only met doesn't mean we're strangers.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“a completely unhinged, typhon-souled, damaged Romeo wo would break your bed, heart, and resolve if you let him.
not maliciously, no. And not because he wants to. He simply cannot help himself. H e would wreck everything in his way. This misunderstood, beautiful, brilliant boy who is burdened with gifts he never asked for, but unwrapped nonetheless. His talent, charm, and beauty are a weapon, and right now they're aimed at me”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Have you ever been in love?"

A huge smile breaks on his face. It is true and big and real, and it can keep me burning forever. I know as long as I see this smile every day, I will never be cold.

"Funny you should ask. Yes, yes, I have been. I still am. It started eight years ago, in the most unlikely event, and it has no expiration date.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Not needing money makes you rich in another way, Rory. A better way. The less you depend on it, the less it limits you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Do we feel like strangers?" he asks.

No. No, we don't. He feels like he's never left my side. Like I carried a tiny part of him with me from the moment I was born, and now that he's here, we can fit the part I kept with the rest of him, like finishing a puzzle.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“You don't look like a princess at all. You look like the more beautiful stepsister in a Disney movie. The underdog who gets the prince at the end. The one who wasn't born with the title, but earned it.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“My father told me not to threaten a whore with a dick.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event