The Mistletoe Motive Quotes

“Here's the thing about reading romance: it's taught me an appreciation for a good grovel, but it's also taught me to recognize a toxic character when I see one.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“Just because you’re loving them differently than they love doesn’t make it any less loving. My mom says there are countless kinds of love, and love enough for everyone. That love is an infinite resource whose expressions are just as innumerable.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“And listen, I love myself for who I am, every part of me, the parts that fit easily in this world and the parts that don't, but it's a whole other thing to ask someone else to love me for all of those parts, too.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“a story of two people finding their way toward being deeply known and loved for all of who they are”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“It means I'm trusting and literal and I've been underestimated and misunderstood more than my pride would like me to admit. And it also means that I'm a creative and a daydreamer, an artistically expressive person who pours herself into her passions and loves fiercely—the causes and people close to my heart—and does none of that by half-measures.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“Two people, who couldn’t have hated each other more at the outset while battling inconvenient desire, ultimately choose humility and forgiveness.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“No, Gabriella. I don’t think it’s silly or odd or strange or juvenile to hold on with both hands to the best parts of who we are when we’re young and not let life take that from you. I think it’s brave and badass and infuriatingly impossible not to admire you for it.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“I know I don’t get it, in the sense that I don’t have diabetes, too, but…maybe I understand it a little, living with something persistent and beyond your control. You can’t take it off or walk away from it or lay it down for awhile. And even when you’ve become accustomed to its reality, when it’s not really bad or good, it just…is, sometimes it’s hard when you’re with others. When you feel that sense of difference and distance from them as you deal with the part of yourself that they don’t understand, that you have to think about in social situations and in your daily life in ways they don’t.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“That ends up really working for them. It’s the heartbeat of their connection, being drawn to each other’s differences, stretching themselves to narrow that distance between each other without losing themselves. They…grow. Together. And more deeply into their true selves.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“Your capacity for joy,” he says quietly. “It’s…humbling.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive

“...there are countless kinds of love, and love enough for everyone. That love is an infinite resource whose expressions are just as innumerable.”
― Chloe Liese, The Mistletoe Motive