Beach Reads Box Set Quotes

“You are incapable of holding back your feelings. Some people bury them, Win, but you toss them in the air like confetti.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“You deserve someone who makes you feel like you’ve been struck by fucking lightning. Don’t you dare settle for fine. ​— ​ROY KENT, “TED LASSO”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“I could taste the way he wanted me. It was a smoky heat, almost bitter, like he'd burned for me all this time and could only now show me the charred truth.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“I cleaned up after myself—and everyone else—because leaving a room better than I found it guaranteed an invite back. I took up the parents' and siblings' interests to keep the conversation flowing. I knew how to make myself invisible when the parents argued or my friend got in trouble and I knew how to smile and play nice even when a member of the family hadn't earned that from me.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“The thing about wars was they weren't fought over one thing. It was never the pinpoint reason found in history books. Wars exploded out of a sequence of events that built over time, a series of pressure points twisting and closing in, a process of buckling down and hardening up. Then a line was crossed and there was no going back.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“WOAT childhood. I'm okay. Really." "What does that mean?" "Weirdest of all time," she replied.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“He plucked my hand from my lap and slipped his fingers between mine. "What's the Society of Banana Babies?" "People who grew up in completely, unbelievably, indisputably bananas situations.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“When you have a kid, everyone warns you about the sleepless nights. The explosive diaper changes. How they grow so fast that you hemorrhage money on clothing them. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll never spend another day of your life without worrying about another person. You’ll never completely relax again because that person you created will always, always be on your mind. You’ll wonder where they are, what they’re doing, and if they’re okay.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“What the hell is the cowboy hat rule?” “You wear the hat, you ride the cowboy.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“When they’re mad, it means they care about you. They want better for you. They know you’re capable of better.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“Sometimes we seize the moment, and sometimes it seizes us. ​— ​GREGG LEVOY”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“That means I have your back, and you let me. Because if something is bothering you, Addie, it’s bothering me, too. If someone is fucking with you, they're fucking with me, too.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“For the women who are strong because they have to be. You deserve a soft place to land and tenderness, too. I see you.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“There are wounds that aren’t physical.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“Tank tops had a way of playing peek-a-boob on me while I slept.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“Crying was the worst, a bodily function that only served to compound misery. Are you miserable? Then you probably feel like crying. Don’t worry, now you’re not only going to be miserable, you’re going to feel and look miserable too. Welcome to snot and tears!”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“You are very beautiful when you try to be intimidating.” “I’d prefer to be intimidating when I try to be intimidating.” “You’re that too.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“I’ve loved you for years. You are the stars in the sky, the start and the finish. I’ll die loving you, wanting you, and the torture of you is better than the bliss of anyone else.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“his aftershave pounding on the door of my biology and saying, Little Win, little Win, let me come in.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“But I like your lap.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“And my lap likes you, which is why you should use a pillow.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“The truth is often embarrassing. I’d prefer to be embarrassed with a truth than coddled with a lie.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3

“How mad do you think he’ll be? On the Muppet Scale?” Our junior year of college, we binged The Muppet Show and often used the Muppet Scale to describe how angry we or others were in any particular situation. It’s difficult to stay angry when discussing the Muppets, with Sam the Eagle at the low end and Miss Piggy finding Kermit canoodling with another pig on the high end.”
― Penny Reid, Beach Reads Box Set 3