Count Your Lucky Stars Quotes

“The right person shouldnt complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you are too much or not enough exactly as you are.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Love isn’t supposed to be quantifiable, relationships held up against one another, pitted against one another.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Maybe disappointment wasn't an inevitability. Maybe everything in her life so far had happened for a reason, the way it was supposed to. All those little disappointments, not the dead ends she'd thought, but turns she had to make, all leading her to something bigger, something better, something lasting, something real. Hers. A perfect convergence of being in the right place at the right time.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“All her friends were settling down, and Margot? She had yet to find a brand of shampoo she liked well enough to commit to, let alone a whole person.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“All her friends were settling down, and Margot? She had yet to find a brand of shampoo she liked well enough to commit to, let along a whole person.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“I'm a whole person. And the idea of needing to find someone to make you complete seems like bullshit to me. The right person shouldn't complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you're too much or not enough exactly as you are.

- Margot”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“I’d never ask you who you care about more because you care about us differently and I believe love is one of those things that doesn’t run out.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“casual was beginning to grate. She’d ban it from her vocabulary if she could, scrap it altogether. Screw casual.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Margot's chest throbbed like at any second she might bust open like a piñata, feelings pouring out of her like candy.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“If you don't reckon with your feelings, sooner or later your feelings are going to reckon with you.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Elle ducked low, peeking inside the carrier. It was difficult to see inside, with Cat tucked up in a tight little ball of dark, fluffy fur and glinting green eyes. “What’s her name?”
Olivia blushed. “Cat.”
Elle cocked her head, clearly confused. “How long have you had her?”
“Um.” She did the math. “Almost eight months.”
Elle frowned. “So . . . it’s not just a placeholder? Cat?”
Margot huffed out a quiet laugh and Olivia’s stomach somersaulted at the sound. “It’s from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Holly Golightly names her—well, it isn’t hers, that’s the whole point. She names the cat Cat.” Margot’s lips twitched. “I’m assuming that’s where you got the name.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Are you partial to IPAs or would you be up for something a little different? A little less bitter, maybe?”
Margot frowned.
Olivia shifted slightly, then shrugged. “I—”
“Would probably like something to drink sometime this century,” Margot muttered under her breath so only Elle could hear.
Elle pressed her lips together and elbowed Margot softly in the side, turning and staring at her with wide, laughing eyes.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Across the courtyard, Brendon’s sister blushed when her girlfriend whispered in her ear, both of them lost in their own little world.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Annie trailed after them, holding both their bouquets. Elle’s had tiny sprigs of cilantro tucked in amongst the eucalyptus and baby’s breath, a subtle nod to an inside joke between her and Darcy.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Maybe she wasn’t Olivia’s perfect person, the one Olivia wanted with her whole heart and soul, the person Olivia ached for and dreamed about at night.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“I’m sure you’re happy that your paths crossed,” Brendon said.
“I am,” Olivia agreed. “I count my lucky stars, that’s for sure.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Cheesy, yet adorable,” Margot conceded.
Elle leaned back, resting her weight on her hands. “A little cheese never hurt anyone.” She wrinkled her nose. “Unless you’re lactose intolerant like Darcy, but that’s only if you’re being literal.”
Margot snorted. “True.”
“Come on, Mar.” Elle snagged a handful of markers and spread them out like a fan. “It’s arts and crafts! What’s not to love?”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“You do realize I could be anybody, right?” Margot veered to the right, careful not to slip as she stepped from carpet onto the kitchen tile, her socks offering no grip. “I could’ve been a murderer for all you knew, and you invited me in.”
“Murderers don’t knock, Margot,” Elle said from the other room.
“You don’t know that.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars

“Do you have somewhere you can stay?” Brendon’s eyes flitted to Margot, then back to Olivia. “A friend’s place, maybe?”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars