Christmas in Quincy Quotes

“How would I ever pretend like this hadn’t happened?”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“For so long, I’d pretended to be a professional. I’d maintained a professional distance. I’d kept our interactions professional. I’d stayed away from her to maintain professionalism.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“His first wife and Cleo’s mother, Janet, had been murdered.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“I love you, Cleo.” Saying the words loosened something in my chest. Something that I’d been holding in for far too long. “I’ve been in love with you since the day I walked into the bakery and spotted you, covered in flour and blueberry stains on your fingers.” “But that was . . .” Her forehead furrowed. The beginning. I’d been in love with her from the beginning. “All this time?”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“We’ll figure it out. Just know this. Now that I’ve had you in my arms, I’m not letting you go.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Being with Cleo . . . there weren’t words to describe how well two people fit together. Never in my life had there been a woman like her and never would there be another. She’d destroyed me. She’d changed the path of my life. I wasn’t sure what we were going to do but giving her up wasn’t an option. “What are we going to do?” she asked, plucking the thought from my head.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Then I closed my eyes and let the rhythm of his heartbeat seep into my soul. “Merry Christmas.” He kissed my hair and pulled me tighter into his embrace. “Merry Christmas.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Austin tore his mouth away and dropped his forehead to mine. “What do you want?” “You. I’ve always wanted you.” He leaned back, his eyebrows coming together. “You have?”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“I worried that if I showed how much I loved your food, everyone would see.” “See what?” “That I’m in love with you.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“They’re the best thing I’ve had in my mouth. Except you, baby.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“sometimes I just want to say screw it. Just do what makes my heart happy.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“I passed a rack of sweatpants and swiped up a pair in light gray.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“You can’t throw a rock without hitting an Eden.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“I love you, Cleo.” Saying the words loosened something in my chest. Something that I’d been holding in for far too long. “I’ve been in love with you since the day I walked into the bakery and spotted you, covered in flour and blueberry stains on your fingers.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Now that I’ve had you in my arms, I’m not letting you go.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Being with Cleo . . . there weren’t words to describe how well two people fit together. Never in my life had there been a woman like her and never would there be another. She’d destroyed me. She’d changed the path of my life. I wasn’t sure what we were going to do but giving her up wasn’t an option.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“I closed my eyes and let the rhythm of his heartbeat seep into my soul.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“What do you want?” “You. I’ve always wanted you.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Austin Myles had kissed me.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“She fought for what was right. Cleo had a pure heart and a kind soul. She put others before herself,”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Cleo Hillcrest was the finest person I’d ever met.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Because there were other bakers in the world. Just like there were other women.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Buying other people’s baked goods had become this sick game.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Instead of marveling at the culinary creations made by a woman I couldn’t have, I ate from other bakers.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“But I needed Ray. Even though I wanted Cleo.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Eddy had been a good man. A good father and stepfather. A good husband. He’d died before Channing’s second birthday. Cancer. I was thirteen years older than Channing and after Eddy passed, I’d done all I could to help Mom raise him.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Dad had died in a work accident when I’d been three,”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Heart. Melt. He wore dorky socks because they were a gift from his mother.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“My crush flared like a skin rash immune to hydrocortisone cream. Hopeless. I was hopeless.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy

“Garrison, Austin’s firm, wasn’t the biggest private security company in Los Angeles, not by a long shot. But his was one of the fastest-growing firms with the best reputation.”
― Devney Perry, Christmas in Quincy