Close Quarters Quotes

“I think it’s important to put yourself first sometimes. Do what makes you happy. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes to whatever you love, even if others don’t understand or support it. Choose yourself every now and then, because if you don’t, then who else will?”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“he treats you like you’re nothing to him when I’m dying to treat you like you’re everything to me?”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“I think it’s important to love yourself — even in the selfish way — because you’re the only person truly looking out for yourself. Even if someone cares about you, a friend or family member, at the end of the day?” He shook his head. “Their life goes on, regardless of how you choose to live yours.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“You are the voice I’ve always been afraid to have.” Theo held me closer. “And you are the life I’ve been waiting to live.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“So, Philautia. A self-care gift to myself as well as a constant reminder that a seemingly selfish love for yourself can be a good thing, so long as the balance is there.” He looked at me then. “So long as you aren’t an asshole about it.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“Do you want to know what I thought the first time I saw you?” His hands fisted in my dress at my hips, hiking the fabric just an inch higher, but I felt the cool air of the room sweep in like a whispered warning. “Mine.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“How could a seemingly ordinary girl from Colorado who wasn’t even supposed to be on my boat at all, become the center of my focus and attention, of my every waking thought and every sleepless night?”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“However, if you were mine?” His eyes traced their way over my collarbones, down the line of my cleavage, to my waist, my hips, my thighs, and back up again. “You wouldn’t have even made it to that top stair before I was dragging you back to the room for my eyes only.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“You are consequential,” he said, voice low and rasped. “You’d do well to realize that and use it to your advantage.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“Leave him? Call him on his bullshit? Point out the fact that he treats you like you’re nothing to him when I’m dying to treat you like you’re everything to me?”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters

“De more yu luk, de less yu si.”
― Kandi Steiner, Close Quarters