The Family You Make Quotes

“Is it for fuck’s sake or for fuck sakes?” she asked the room. “It’s a work email, so it has to sound professional.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“Kuchi zamishi is a Japanese saying. It’s the act of eating because your mouth is lonely,”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“They mean well, but I’m very different from them, and different is sometimes hard to accept.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“Thought you weren’t afraid of anything.”

Turned out, she was afraid of plenty, including how just looking at him could change the rhythm of her heart.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“With another of those sexy laughs, he kissed her. Really kissed her, nothing sweet or questioning about it this time. She moaned, closed a fist in his hair, and did the only thing she could: held on for the best kiss of her life.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“Now that she could breathe again and he wasn’t hurt, she moved closer because a proper southern woman always looked a person in the eyes while she yelled at him.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“JANE: Are you flirting with me?

LEVI: Depends on if you liked it.

LEVI: ….

JANE: Okay, maybe I liked it a little. Leave me a text on where to find you. I’m going to go home and change first.

LEVI: Don’t change on my account. I like you just the way you are.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“Cherophobia.” She looked at him. “What?” “It’s the fear of being happy.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make

“that while maybe his family didn’t always understand him, he’d never taken the time to understand them either.”
― Jill Shalvis, The Family You Make