Faking Ms. Right Quotes

“I figured if more people made an effort to be friendly, the world would be a much better place.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“That's the thing about love, though. If you never open yourself up to the risk of being hurt, you'll never give someone the chance to get close enough to love you back.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Now I was drowning in feelings. So I’d drown those fuckers in whiskey.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“That’s the thing about love, though. If you never open yourself up to the risk of being hurt, you’ll never give someone the chance to get close enough to love you back.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“The truth was, I liked making people happy. It was my catnip.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“After the champagne and the Manhattan, I was in danger of bypassing a little tipsy and heading straight for telling inappropriate stories and asking strangers for hugs. Not that I’d ever done that before. Okay, yes I had.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“He winced. “That was them, too. Nora, to be specific. She guessed your email password.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“It’s natural to need some time and space to process that information,” Hazel said. “But now we need you to get your head out of your ass so you can fix this and bring our girl back,” Nora said.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“She saw through right to the heart of who I was, as if she had the power to reach inside past all my barriers.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“There was an unwritten rule, I was sure of it. You couldn’t ask a man who’d had his peen in your sister to be your sperm donor.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Svetlana sat across from him, resting bitch face out in full force.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Did I really want to hear all about Millie’s diet? Not particularly. But it made Steve happy to have someone who listened, so I endured a little bit of cat conversation now and then.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Of course you don’t need men,” Nora said. “But they’re very nice to have around. They can fix things, and lift things that are heavy. And”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Nora shrugged. “I went out with Max again, but I think I’m over it.” “But you guys have only been seeing each other for a month or so,” I said. “I thought you really liked him.” “He’s not bad,” she said. “But if I keep going out with him, he’s going to get attached. I do not want that happening.” “Would it be so terrible to have a real relationship?” I asked. “I’m just not interested,” she said. “I like my life the way it is. A man would only complicate things.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Shepherd is supposed to be a single-minded, unemotional robot boss. Not an actual human with a heart and morning wood. Between the awkward bed-sharing and tingly fake dates, lines are blurring.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“We’re going home and I’m going to fuck the shit out of you when we get there.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“The consequences of letting go were never worth it.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“When had my mom gotten so bitter? She’d never been warm and nurturing—not even when Ethan and I were kids—but she’d seemed to reject her life as a wife and mother more vehemently as the years went by. And I was so much like her.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“marriage is an archaic institution. A legally binding contract between two people to stay together for life? It’s completely unrealistic. Move her in with you. Let her play house if that’s what she wants. But for god’s sake, don’t get married.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“There was the part where he was a robot with no feelings. At least, that was what I tried to tell myself as I fell prey to his hypnotic gaze and man-heaven scent.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“I”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“Everly, you have the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever known. And I’m about to ask you to give it to me, forever. All I have to give you in return is mine, which, to be perfectly honest, isn’t enough. But I love you with every bit of it—with every piece of my soul. Will you marry me?”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“I kissed her because, in that moment, there was nowhere else I’d rather be, nothing else I’d rather be doing. And no one else I’d rather be doing it with.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“I'd never given it a lot of thought, but sharing a bed was awfully intimate.
There was a certain vulnerability to it.
Shepherd was an exceedingly private person, and he never made decisions without careful consideration. The fact that he trusted me enough for this was oddly touching.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right

“The band started a new song and I pulled Everly close. I lifted her chin and leaned down, kissing her. Not because we were supposed to. Not to sell everyone in the room on the veracity of our relationship. I kissed her because, in that moment, there was nowhere else I’d rather be, nothing else I’d rather be doing. And no one else I’d rather be doing it with.”
― Claire Kingsley, Faking Ms. Right