Love Lettering Quotes

“...Sometimes fighting isn't about leaving, it's about staying. It takes practice to get it right, and it's painful, but if you want to stay with people, you do it.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I think I quit reading at the word stochastic, which actually sort of reminded me of Reid, if what it means is a combination of stoic and sarcastic. But I’m pretty sure it has to do with calculus.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I was not speaking literally.” I think the slight softness to his voice is sympathy. Dear Diary, I imagine him writing later. Today I met a woman wearing too many buttons who does not understand what a metaphor is.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Yes, but it’s, you know—every year, you’re all, ‘March! This is going to be great! Start of spring!’ But it’s definitely not, right? Because there will be a weird, freak snowstorm, and it’s like winter’s started all over. Unexpected things happen in March.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I tell her I’ll be there soon and for the rest of the trip over, I’m doing that thing I indulge myself in sometimes, where I compose a lengthy, highly organized but incredibly witty lecture of censure to someone who has done me wrong.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Reid," I whisper to him. "It wasn't a mistake."
"No," he says, resting his forehead against mine. "It was a sign.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Whatever is worse than man-splaining, this is it. This is man-terrogating.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“When I had my own fight with them,I say adjusting for my limit, I guess... I felt so out of control. We all said things we can't take back, and nothing's ever been the same. So I really try hard to-I keep the peace with people. I don't like the way it make me feel, to fight.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“You practiced getting along with people. You can certainly practice not getting along with them, too.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“If Sibby were here, she would remind me that talking about the weather in this way is functionally the same as having "I'm a Midwesterner" tattooed onto my face. For my next trick, why not bring up a garage sale I heard about? Or perhaps point out that I got the bag I'm carrying at a fifty percent off sale, with an extra five percent deducted for a temperamental zipper? Would Reid be interested in knowing my opinions on mayonnaise versus Miracle Whip?”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Alas,” he says, and I worry I’m going to start developing some kind of Masterpiece Theatre library of sexual fantasies. Alas, alas, alas. I’m thinking about the word cravats when he finishes his sentence. “I am not in an area known for its hands-craftsmanship.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I enjoyed watching you work. I love that word, enjoyed. It sounds small and polite, but it contains something big, passionate. In my head I see it as it should be, I think. The en- and the -ed should be small, but sturdy. Like bookends, or like hands, supporting something that’s lean and tall, but fragile and new. A fawn’s legs. J-O-Y.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Whatever is worse than man-splaining, this is it. This is man-terrogating. Before, at the Promenade, his questions—they were blunt, too abrupt. But they didn’t feel this way, at least. These are vaguely accusatory and not-so-vaguely superior.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“The point is . . . sometimes fighting isn’t about leaving, it’s about staying. It takes practice to get it right, and it’s painful, but if you want to stay with people, you do it.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Don’t,” he replies. I see the word in my head, shaped as a set of double doors closing— on one side, on the other. A tiny sliver of space between, narrowing and narrowing as they shut in my face.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“A chuckle. I see that word, drawn out. I’d make it so there were no ascenders, so all the letters were on the level. I’d make it so there was hardly any space between them, so that the word would look as snug and as warm as the sound feels.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“A fundamental quality of my work is its impermanence. Sure, my planners are inked, and sure, clients could always page back through and admire a particular spread. But really, the point of the planners, of the calendars, is that you make your way through them, that you check off the days and turn the page. That you move on.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“For a split second we look at each other, and to me it feels like a mountain of letters between us, all jumbled up and unmatched, a thousand things I need to say to her but can’t figure out how to say. Not without starting some kind of terrible avalanche. Not without getting buried beneath them.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I hate New York.” It almost makes me recoil, the way he’s said this. Bold, sans serif. No caps, but italics for the It’s not a harmless, pedestrian “I hate this song” or “I hate those chocolate balls rolled in shredded coconut.” It’s not one of those small, meaningless hatreds that shear the word of its meaning.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Like he’s taken a professional brow-furrowing class and like his mouth has had a turn-down service. He is laser focused. He would definitely notice if I stress-vomited.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“We all said things we can’t take back, and nothing’s ever been the same. So I really try to—I keep the peace with people. I don’t like the way it makes me feel, to fight.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“The warmth I feel — it's not from the drink. It's from this evening, these games, this moment. This understanding, or at least the attempt at it.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“no reason to feel sorry for me, either. I’m not”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“If I did, I would say that last week I watched every video you’ve got on your website so I could hear the sound of your voice again. I would say that a woman stood next to me on the subway and I think she used the same shampoo as you, and I could hardly breathe for how much I missed you.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“best-looking falafel I’ve ever seen, garlicky sautéed carrots, a tomato-and-cucumber salad that I plan to mix with the hummus that’s sitting right beside it.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I never really knew what people meant before when they said someone was “pushing their buttons.” Right now, I am made of buttons.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I had to learn to fight with him the same way I had to learn how to fight with my sister and with my roommate in college."..."[Fighting] takes practice to get it right, and it's painful, but if you want to stay with people, you do it.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“I'm a Midwesterner"...Would Reid be interested in knowing my opinions on mayonnaise versus Miracle Whip?”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“But if there were lean times,” he says. “You have an LLC, or something? Do you pay yourself a salary out of that?”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

“Stochastically.”
― Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering