The Best Thing Quotes

“Do what you have to do to be happy, okay? No one else is going to do it for you.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“It’s easy for people to love you when you’re doing things for them, when they get something out of it. But it isn’t so easy to find people who will still love you when you’re down and need help getting up. That’s when you really find out who’s with you for the right reasons.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“We outgrow clothes the same way we outgrow people,”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“The soft yellow ball was honestly one of the most thoughtful gifts anyone had ever given me. It was a decent replacement for the nut sacks I wished I could squeeze the hell out of when someone pissed me off.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“It changes the way you see things and people when you get teased for being yourself, like you’ve got some other choice in the matter.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“We outgrow clothes the same way we outgrow people, Len. We change inside the same way we do outside.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“Life’s not easy but hold on to the things that matter, even if you have to use some fingernails.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“You made your choices in life, and you had to deal with them. There weren’t take backs. You could never and should never expect a second chance.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“when you love someone, you threw them up into the sky to fly, Dimples. You don’t just open your hand to let them go. Because you know who they are, and they know who you are, and that’s all that matters. You don’t hold back someone you love.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“When life throws bad shit at you, you dodge it and throw whatever you can right back.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“You do whatever you have to do for the people you love.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“And it’s more fun to be nice when you know someone doesn’t like you since it’ll just make them feel like they’re the bad person, okay? Mind Games 101. You taught that class.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“You did something and you could regret it, or you could not do something and regret it. You never knew which way it would go. Everything in life is a gamble.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“Should've, would've, could've. One of my coaches had told me once that those were the most pointless set of words in the world. But you learn to live with them, you learn from them, or you let them weigh you down for life.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“I was not going to waste my life being pissed off at someone. I had better shit to do. People didn’t give enough credit to what not giving a fuck could do for you. It was freedom.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“everyone has a threshold for what they’re willing to forgive.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“if you love something or someone, you don’t ever give up on it. Life’s not easy but hold on to the things that matter, even if you have to use some fingernails. I told one of you once that you don’t throw away the things that matter”

Excerpt From
The Best Thing
Zapata, Mariana
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― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“And you are all those things, they’re just mixed in with all those other traits I like even more.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“I didn't know. Not until I got here and you told me. I had no clue."

I watched his face. I watched his face so damn carefully...

"I would have been here in a wheelchair if I had know," he claimed, steadily, quietly. "On crutches. On my hands and knees, I would have been here.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“Then again, it was one thing to do something risky that only caused physical pain. Physical pain you could manage with ice, rest, and anti-inflammatories. It was the other kind of pain, the one that snuck under your skin and settled up in quiet places you didn’t go visit that often, that wasn’t so easy to get over. That was the difference, wasn’t it?”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all, Luna would tell me. But she had never warned me how fucking hard it was to live up to that.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“I knew it was a shitty idea to click on the link on my home screen. But I did it anyway. Because as I’d learned over the course of my life, I liked pissing myself off.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“I’m always here when you need a cuddle,” he said, totally serious, watching me as his right hand went to wrap around the back of my thigh. “Or more.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“You didn’t find real things by looking, usually.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“it isn’t that I love him because I don’t want to love you. It’s that I know him, and I can’t help it.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“I’d like for you to apologize to her,” Jonah said, still using that hard-ass voice that got me going. Then he added “Please,” and I swear my ovaries just about exploded. Well, it wasn’t like I didn’t know I had issues.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“Lenny, what is on her back?” he asked breathlessly, holding his daughter—our daughter—about as far away from his body as he could get. “Why is her back wet? What is all over my fingers?” The only thing I could do was press my eyes closed, shake my head, and dry heave with a balled-up hand over my mouth. “Why is her back so warm?” Jonah gasped. “What am I touching?” Shit. Literally.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“It was my choice, and I would make the same one if I had to,” I told him honestly. It hadn’t been easy, but it had been right. That was fucking life sometimes, wasn’t it?”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“This was about the baby chewing away at a toy in a way that made my nipples have PTSD from when I had breastfed her before she’d decided she was done with my boobs.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing

“like he’d caught us having sex right on the floor.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Best Thing