Night Shift Quotes

“Reading is so much fun, but I’m tired of feeling like all the best parts of my life have been lived inside my own head.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I’m always going to be a reader. And I’m always going to be a romantic.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“The thing is, I don’t read romance novels for the realism. I read them because they make me feel seen and heard as a woman. They let me explore my desires—both the ones I’m proud of and the ones I clear from my search history—and they’ve taught me who I am and what I want. I’m always going to be a reader. And I’m always going to be a romantic.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Because that’s what nonfictional men do: disappoint you.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I kissed you because I wanted to kiss you," he says. "I memorized poems for you because I wanted to be able to talk to you about the shit you like." He lowers his voice. "And I ate you out because it was my birthday and all I wanted was to make you come. That was for me, Kendall. All of that was for me. I didn't do it to be nice. I did it because I.Like.You.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“My roommates call me a hopeless romantic. I let them. It’s nicer than being called a lonely hermit.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Real life is never like the novels.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I think I finally understand why Shakespeare wrote all those love sonnets and Taylor Swift writes all those songs. I get it now—the inexplicable and inescapable need to untangle the garden of feelings growing inside you, leaf by leaf and vine by vine, to put them into words.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“The books around us are quiet, in the way inanimate objects are, but I can feel them around us--full of magic; full of possibility.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“fuck, I’m gawking like a Victorian who’s spotted a stray ankle.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Courted? I’m sorry, is this Victorian England?” “No, this is Starbucks.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I’m just a girl who overthinks everything and has a bad case of main character syndrome?”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“am a girl who spends an alarming percentage of her waking life buried in books.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“And on Fridays, you sit behind that front desk reading porn." -Vincent, Night Shift.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“The books around us are quiet, in the way inanimate objects are, but I can feel them around us—full of magic; full of possibility. I’ve always loved libraries after dark.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“It feels so utterly Jane Austen that I think I might cry.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Then practice on me,” he offers. “I’m here. I’m all yours.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“failure will be a hell of a lot better than spending the rest of my life wishing I hadn’t been too proud and too scared to try.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“To be fair, I do feel a bit like I’m studying for an exam—except it’s somehow more stressful than any final I’ve taken, because it feels like I missed the lecture where I was supposed to learn how to have a crush without letting it consume me body and soul.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Do it for the plot.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I can get you more," I tell him, forgetting to be embarrassed when a tear spills out and dribbles down my cheek. "Seriously, I'll give you fucking fields of them. Whatever it takes to let you know how into you I actually am. I just - I think, for now, I need you to give me aggressively straightforward statements of intents. Constantly. Otherwise, I'll run circles in my head trying to interpret things.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I think, for now, I need you to give me aggressively straightforward statements of intent. Constantly. Otherwise, I’ll run circles in my head trying to interpret things.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Be a good girl for me, Kendall," he says without a drop of humor, "and take it.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Unfortunately, leaving this desk to help cranky kids with their homework isn’t in my job description.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“I wish, in this moment, that I was more of a writer than a reader. I wish I knew how to steer a plot and how to make things happen the way I want them to. Reading is so much fun, but I’m tired of feeling like all the best parts of my life have been lived inside my own head.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“We had to hype him up the morning before he met with you at Starbucks. The kid was so fucking nervous.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“So,” he says, “Thursdays and Sundays, you party.” “Yep.” “And on Fridays, you sit behind that front desk reading porn.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Does a June wedding work for you?” he asks hoarsely.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“But instead, the skies overhead are heavy and gray, and everything is dim and dark and moody. I love it. I have an entire Spotify playlist dedicated to this kind of weather.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“Then for the sake of being direct,” he says, “I can’t stop thinking about you, Kendall. And I’ve read every goddamned poem Elizabeth Barrett Browning ever wrote. In three weeks. For fun.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift