Rootbound Quotes

“I close my eyes. “It felt like this was … a date.” I open them to see him twitching that hard jaw again. “Honey, they’ve all been dates to me. I’ve just been waiting for you to catch up.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Rootbound

“I suck in a breath at the sudden realization that I, someone who is not inherently funny, want to be the one making her laugh like this, for as long as I can.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Rootbound

“She feels inevitable to me, and I have the desperate need to make her feel the same. To prove to her that this, whatever the hell it is between us, is worth seeing more of.”
― Tarah Dewitt, Rootbound

“When someone betrays you, you don’t have a chance to lose feelings. You’re left with all that love leftover, plus anger right alongside it, with nowhere for it to go and no one to give it to. It’s like a phantom limb or something, I guess,”
― Tarah Dewitt, Rootbound

“You have no idea. That was nothing. She jumped out of my moving car once because I wouldn’t let her borrow a sweater . . .”
― Tarah Dewitt, Rootbound