Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake Quotes

“For anyone who’s been told they’re too loud. Too emotional. Too much. You are the perfect amount of enough”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“I think about your brain constantly,' he continued, his eyes piercing into hers. 'It fascinates me to no end. I want to know every corner of it, learn the secret colours of your thoughts. I'd do anything for a map of it.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“... she decided to be brave. She decided to tear off a corner of her heart, carefully fold it into a tiny paper airplane, and gently toss it at him, letting it glide to a stop at his feet. He could either pick it up or step on it, and she was scared of either option.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“You’ll probably never fully grasp how wonderful it is to know a person like you exists.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“If yellow was a sound, he thought, it would be her laugh. Bright and booming, warming and joyful. Different varieties ranging from sunbeams and lemon zest to the soft puffs of golden wattle.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“Your brain was built different and that’s beautiful, never a burden.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“I always feel bigger looking up at the stars,” she said, raising her hands, pulling one of his with her, to gesture at the sky as she sought out the words. “It’s like I’m looking up at all the energy that lives inside of me. Like whatever divine being or miracle of science that made all these beautiful stars, also made me. Whatever allows for stars to exist also allows for me to exist. It feels empowering—elevating—to know that I can exist among something so beautiful.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“He wasn’t sure why, but something about her made him want to know every vibrant thought that swirled through her colorful mind. She fascinated him in a way no one else ever had before. He wanted to understand her.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“For anyone who’s been told they’re too loud. Too emotional. Too much. You are the perfect amount of enough.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“You don’t understand what a privilege it is to know you,” he said, whispering the words into the shell of her ear. “You don’t understand how it changes a person to hear you laugh.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“I don’t think you break things, Lizzie,” he said after a few minutes. She let out a disbelieving snort. “I really don’t. I think you make things better. A lot better.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“Sometimes, deciding on what to eat felt like the biggest decision of her life, the endless options overwhelming her, swarming her brain in a dysfunctional tangle of choices, until she knew she’d make the wrong decision regardless and just blurted out the next thing her eyes landed on.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“I want to show you where I grew up,” he said, his voice hoarse. “Take you to a new corner of the world to explore. I want you to meet my nan and I want my mum to babysit our child. I want to introduce my friends from uni to the girl of my dreams, so they can see what a lovesick idiot you’ve made me. I want to show you off and hold your hand. I want to take you to the beach and ogle you in a bikini. I want to take you camping and make love to you under the stars. I want to hand over all my old memories because I only want new ones with you.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“Lizzie had been naked in front of countless people, but she’d never felt so bare as when he looked at her like that, like she was the answer to every question he’d ever thought to ask.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

“You don’t have to be embarrassed,” Rake said. “About any of it. You aren’t an emotional nightmare.”
She gave him a skeptical look.
“You’re … alive.”
She blinked at him, her eyebrows furrowing. “Alive?”
Rake waved his hand, heat crawling up his skin like he’d just told her something way too honest. “You know. Lively. Energetic. There’s a sort of … I don’t know … vibrancy about you.”
― Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake