Happily Ever Afters Quotes

“Why do his words get to come out all flawlessly Times New Roman, and mine are, like, Wingdings?”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“And that is the greatest risk, presenting something you love and asking others to love it too.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“My brother has disabilities.
We used to call it special needs before a teacher pointed out that his needs aren't special. They're just his.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“That's really the point of romance as a genre, women asking for what they want, without apology.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“Sometimes the inspiration is there, and sometimes it's not, but you can't force it. It's not a light switch or something.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I’m done taking up less space than I deserve.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I think there’s something to be said for making art just to make you happy. Not to win awards or impress others or get the attention of your parents who can be a little clueless at”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“But a good love story is smart. Empowering. It's why I've been drawn to the genre for as long as I can remember. ~ Page 316. From the book Happily Ever Afters”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“There's no guidebook, no eleven-step plan. No best friend or boyfriends leading the way. Just freedom to make the choices I want. I only need to figure out first what I want those choices to be. ~Page 342”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks, but it took J.D. Salinger like... ten years to write the Catcher in the Rye, and that book is like WAY short.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“She’s probably used to being held like that, being looked at like that. It’s foreign to me, though. No boy has ever seen me in that way, because I’m not a girl like Poppy. It’s not as if I don’t think I’m pretty. When I look in the mirror, I generally like what I see. I don’t wish I had straight hair or lighter skin. It’s just that, to most guys, my kind of pretty isn’t the same as Poppy’s kind of pretty—even with the gray hair. I’m an acquired taste, and Poppy is, like, pizza. Pizza doesn’t have to worry if people are just ordering it to look cool or complete some type of image. No one goes through a pizza phase. Pizza is universal.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“As he climbs the stairs, I think, He deserves this. Putting his heart and joy on a plate for others, being his authentic self, taking the risk that so many of us are afraid to—pushing past the fear that I let paralyze me and force me into letting go of something I love so much. And that is the greatest risk, presenting something that you love and asking others to love it too.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“It’s . . . cute, how he gets all worked up about spices. It reminds me of the time he let it slip that his stand mixer was named Ethel.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“Writing is you.
And if you don't have writing, then who are you?
How do you fit into your new school, your family...this friendship?
The tears I was holding back flow freely now.
"Writing is my whole identity, you know? It's the one thing I have. The one thing I'm good at. Like, that makes me special?”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“You are the literal opposite of regular. You're a glittery, flying unicorn and a gift to this world that I treasure more than anything.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“And that is the greatest risk, presenting something that you love & asking others to love it too”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“I've got all the lines for you. As many lines as you could possibly dream of, because you are deserving of lines from here to eternity.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“What do they say? Write what you know? You need to know more to write more.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“But see, we deserve that freedom. That white girl brunch freedom!”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“there’s orange juice in the yams and crushed saltine crackers on top of the mac and cheese.”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters

“we spend most of Sunday at the beach, reading (Christina Lauren for her, On Writing for me . . . until I give up on that and take her backup Christina Lauren).”
― Elise Bryant, Happily Ever Afters