The Magnolia Chronicles Quotes

“I love judging men," Shannon mused. "Objectification is an essential element in taking down the patriarchy.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I'm not trying to be a purist. I don't want to police the way people speak but I hate the way words are weaponized against women sometimes. I hate how fucking everything is weaponized against women when it suits others. I'm a little sensitive to all that noise right now.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures in Dating

“I can tell him exactly what I'm thinking. I can disagree with him and I can tell him he's wrong and…he likes it. He's never once made me feel small or that my ideas aren't important.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“The waiter chose this moment to stop at our table and babble on about the backstory of each dish and its ingredients. The carrots were cruelty-free, the bacon knew its grandmother, the chef had trekked all the way to the Malabar coast to handpick the peppercorns. It was a whole big thing.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“Those forearms were straight out of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“We were fucked up in the feels.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“She," I replied. "She. She's one of those A-N-D-Y Andys because fuck the patriarchy and their arcane gendered spelling conventions.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I didn't actually want a dick pic. Those things were worse than opening the camera app and finding it in selfie mode. Even the most beautiful people in the world looked like triple-chinned potatoes at that angle.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I sounded perky and breezy but you can believe I rolled my eyes like a motherfucker.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I was convinced I'd met all the men metro Boston had to offer. There was the wandering millennials, the affluent assholes, the man-shaped children, the chronically misogynistic mansplainers.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“Pfft." She waved a hand at me. "I've seen plenty of penises, thank you. I married a man, and I raised two sons. For years, I couldn't go a day without seeing at least two penises. Years, Magnolia.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I loved him and he loved me.
He loved me when love was the last thing he wanted.
He loved me when I couldn't choose him, when I wouldn't.
He loved me exactly as I was, requiring no more, no less.
He loved me and I loved him, and now, we both knew it. We could say it, we could live it.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“You could choose him and I'd bow out. I'd hate it. I'd fucking hate it. But I'd do it if it meant you were happy. If it was your choice, I'd wish you the best and step aside."
He watched me, his eyes wide and his lips parted as that same arrow of affection lanced through him.
I was done. Heart eyes and butterfly bellies and a lava cake heart. Done.
And I knew … I knew falling was like this.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I know I love you and I know it has nothing to do with wanting to win.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“He dragged his gaze up my body, taking forever to meet my eyes. "You're the only thing in the world I can see. Only thing I want to see.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“I met the game changer … I fell for the game changer.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“When I thought about the steps I took and the mountain I climbed toward being all right with myself, Andy and her friends were the ones clearing the way and holding my hands. I wouldn't have made it here and I wouldn't have two men vying for my affection if not for these women. They were hard on me once upon a time and that was the ugly way of it—women were often hard on each other. Unnecessarily so. But when they came around, they came all the way around. Circled up so tight they pulled me back together and squeezed the darkness right out.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“He gazed down at me, his focus locked on my lips. “I don’t know whether I should resent you for making me feel again or love you for it.” Before I could respond, he continued. “Don’t say anything. I already know.”
Then he kissed me.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating

“There was more to it than being wanted. But I didn’t know what came after that.
I didn’t know how it felt to be wanted and I didn’t know how I’d handle it if I ever found out.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating