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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“How’s the book, Holiday?”
― 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

“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