Twice in a Blue Moon Quotes

“For the first time in my life I get it: home isn’t always a space; it can be a person.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“Can you believe me, though?” he asks quietly. “That the worst thing I ever did was for the best reason I ever had?”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“I don't know why people think permanent denial is better than temporary disappointment.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“He’s the one who taught me what love looked like and felt like and then taught me it’s a lie. I have never been able to come back from that.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“Do you want to live in the sun?” he asked quietly. “Or do you want to go back in the shadows?”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“I think the fact that I never got to fall out of love with him—that I just had to keep moving forward, stumbling into something new and totally different—means that my brain and heart don’t know the protocol here.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“A watched pot never boils, and a watched phone never rings.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“I don’t know why people think permanent denial is better than temporary disappointment.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“It was two weeks of my life, a long time ago, but I loved him. I remember the feeling; it's still the only time I've ever felt it. Maybe this is why I can call it back whenever I need to--though it's been a long time since I tortured myself that way.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“I want every wish he ever makes to be for this. A penny in a fountain. The first star. An eyelash. Eleven eleven.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“Luther wanted to re-create the Abbey Road cover, so we found a couple of random dudes to round out the Beatles with us.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“You're an enigma, you have to know that.'

Charlie and Trey go still, as if they're working to be invisible during this conversation.

'I'm an enigma?'

'Beautiful,' he says, 'but sort of unknowable.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“but I’m sure I’m the only one of the two of us who is so fixated on our brief affair. It was the single most defining moment in my life; no doubt it’s just one of many in his. I need to move on.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“I may not have baggage with Nick, but nailing it still means I have to push everything else aside. Nothing else can matter but fully becoming Ellen, and what would Ellen do is a situation like this? She’d give herself an hour to be mad, to be sad, to be whatever she needed to be, and then she’d buckle down. No excuses.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“Shock is a cold hand on my shoulder, a complete standstill in my brain and chest and veins.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“Home isn't always a space; it can be a person.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“I think I'm falling in love with you. Is that crazy?"
"No. It isn't crazy. Because, me too.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“What are you thinking about?" I asked him.
"You.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“You're pretty cute if that's the craziest thing.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“That the worst thing I ever did was for the best reason I ever had?”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“Listen to me on this. The only sure
thing in this business is that you’ll have to fight harder every goddamn year and you can only count on yourself. If you want
to stay relevant, you have to make opportunities wherever you
can, and this is a gold mine, Tate.” He takes a deep breath and
lets it out slowly. “A gold mine.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon

“It’s so crazy to think that things that I thought only lived in my imagination can be real.” He reached out, tracing my mouth with his fingertip. “But then I touch you, and it’s like every fantasy I ever had coming true.”
― Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon