Love & Other Great Expectations Quotes

“If you keep sweeping things under the rug, eventually the rug doesn’t lie flat anymore.”
“Then you trip on it and fall on your face?”
“Exactly.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“He pressed his lips together in a sad almost smile. "It's better not to love something, isn't it? It's harder to get hurt if you don't care.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“Maybe I just wanted to spend time with a pretty, crazy American.”
“Did you call me pretty? Or was that a qualifier for the adjective crazy?”
“It was not a qualifier. It was two separate adjectives, both of which accurately describe you. Although after the knife incident, I believe crazy is coming through stronger.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“Luke managed to find things about me that annoyed everyone else and turn them into things he liked.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“Books are like adventures. They take you to new places and let you be new people. The best ones teach you about life or inspire you.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“What would I do without you, Al?”
“Board a train to France. Drown. End up sleeping on a park bench. Starve.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“You make the world brighter. You’re beautiful and determined and special, and I don’t know how I lasted my whole life without you in it.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?”
“What kind of question is that? … Why would I have to eat either one, ever? Exactly what type of camping are we doing?”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“Want to be a knight, Al?”
“My salary does not include dismemberment.”
“I’d you get dismembered by a plastic sword, you’re doing something wrong.”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations