For You and Only You Quotes

“Love is a book. You don't skip ahead. You let the story surprise you.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“You're a Goodreads girl.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You And Only You

“Real love is quiet. A whisper between two people.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Doesn't anyone else in this world fucking love anyone?”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Kill your darlings so they don’t kill you. I am my own darling, and I know it.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“no two people read the same book because no two people are the same person.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“I KILLED TWO PEOPLE FOR YOU. I’M A LOVER. A HERO. THE OPPOSITE OF A PSYCHOPATH.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“I have never tried to control anyone in my entire life. I have only tried to help people make good decisions.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“questioning your whole past. Do you go through the same thing?” No, I do not. “Absolutely.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“The point of my book, the point of reading any book...it's self-understanding. We open books to find ourselves in the pages.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Words are worse than sticks and stones. They penetrate us without drawing blood.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Word are worse than sticks and stones. They penetrate us without drawing blood.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“You can make one person love you, but you can't make a group of people like you, not when they already have each other, when they are a "them" in a way that makes you a "you.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“His life is want-to, not have-to.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“This is how it works with people who have it all. They want you to feel sorry for them because they have it all.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“I don't kill women, I love them!”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Am I losing you? Don't you think I'm smart? Funny?”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You And Only You

“Too privileged is what I'd say and I swear on People to keep my mouth shut.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You And Only You

“Love is a book. You don’t skip ahead. You let the story surprise you. You root for the character and let the author set the pace. You don’t read because you’re in control, because you know what comes next and when. You read because you don’t know.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“I love you even though you love to be lonely more than you love to be loved.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“writers are just people. When they can’t love themselves, they can’t love anyone, and without love, they go dark.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“all people are better people when they have a people.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“I don’t focus on pleasing anyone but myself when it comes to writing.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Being happy is like daring the universe to sucker punch you”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Some people want to be king so badly that they can’t get out of their own way and finish that damn draft, and then finish it again, and live for the act of writing a scene or riding a bike.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“It’s better to be in flow than it is to be validated for evidence that you were once in flow.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“The people at the next table laugh hard in that way that privileged people do, like they’re all activating their cores, not actually, you know, laughing.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Inspiration is blurry, and we live in this time where everyone wants excruciating high-def clarity but then you remember that all writers look around at the world and think…‘I have to make something out of this mess, out of my pain, my life, out of the Denis Johnson that made me who I am.’ That’s the great tradition, the writer’s burden, the writer’s gift.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“Praise is poison.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You

“they say this about people, that we criticize in others what we like least about ourselves.”
― Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You