If You Must Know Quotes

Rate this book
Clear rating
If You Must Know (Potomac Point, #1) If You Must Know by Jamie Beck
13,051 ratings, 3.89 average rating, 732 reviews
Open Preview
If You Must Know Quotes Showing 1-17 of 17
“As a teacher, I’d seen good parents with troubled kids and troubled parents with wonderful kids.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“If we carelessly disregard other people, we should change. But if we’re merely being true to ourselves, we shouldn’t. How others respond to pain or fear is their choice.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“Pity. Life must be boring for those without any sense of humor.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“There ought to be a warning anytime you wake up on a day that will forever change your life.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“who can fault a guy who admires uniqueness?”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“If we carelessly disregard other people, we should change. But if we’re merely being true to ourselves, we shouldn’t. How others respond to pain or fear is their choice. If Mom moves out of town and Eli lives a lonely life, that’s on them, not us.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“They loved me in their way even if they couldn’t love and accept me as I was. My dad had, though, and to honor his memory and wishes for our family, I couldn’t continue to drift out of their lives as I’d been doing.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“getting good at things requires commitment and learning how to come back harder if you fail the first time. Promise me you won’t quit things because you’re scared you’re not good enough.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“Jesus, the way we tortured ourselves over fates we didn’t control boggled the mind.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“I’d always suspected his relentless drive to prove himself sprang from his mom’s abandonment. No one would call Lyle easy to live with, but my heart ached whenever I thought of the cruelty he suffered in childhood. If healing that wound required me to tiptoe around his feelings or defer to his whims now and then, I would do so happily. He’d taken the leap of trust that I would not leave him like his mother had, so he deserved my devotion.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“When you pour everything you have into a belief, letting it go is like killing a part of yourself, even when you know it’s the only way to survive.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“It’s not easy to have people look at you differently and to know you’re the butt of their jokes.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“You’re angry with me. I get that. Sorry, not sorry,”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“My dad found me charming, so I’ve never felt the need to fit in.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“When I looked up at Eli, he surprised me with a wide grin. “You’re odd. You know that, right?”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“shot to the fists that I’d formed. “We need to take Ebba down. I mean, she’s a class-A bitch to sleep with a married man whose wife is pregnant.”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know
“Like your provocateur way of life is working for you?”
Jamie Beck, If You Must Know