In a Jam Quotes

“Bodies are extremely temporary and they’re the least interesting things about us. They carry us around while we’re on this earth and there’s nothing more I can ask from my body than that. I certainly wouldn’t spend any time worrying about the size or shape of anyone else’s body. Not when I could care about their heart and their mind instead.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Carrying bags full of books is my cardio.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“There’s a ton of shit I can handle,” she said, “and I’d still love if someone stepped in front of it for me.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I felt like I’d been waiting a very long time for someone who knew how to shatter me and also wanted to pick up all the pieces. And I felt an unpleasant sense of relief in discovering that person was my husband.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Don’t mourn the loss of people who don’t deserve you.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“This is where you belong, Shay. This is the home and we are the family you’ve always wanted … You belong here and you belong to me.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“The smile I’d caught yesterday, the lightness in her – I hadn’t realized I’d missed it until it was there again, bright and warm and magnetic.
I was so fucked.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I didn’t care that she’d leave again and I’d never recover. I didn’t care because I knew what it felt like to hold her and kiss her and nothing else in the world mattered. Nothing fucking mattered.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“She was beautiful in a way that overwhelmed me, though it wasn’t just her face, her body. She was a sunbeam through a storm cloud.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“You’re tired. Rest.” Noah pressed a kiss to the dandelion and wrapped his arms around me. “Close your eyes, wife. I have you.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“The dogs went crazy last night,” Gennie said. “Do you want me to tell you about it?” “Definitely,” Grace replied. “Start at the beginning. Leave nothing out. What are the dogs’ names?” “Bernie Sanders, Elliot Stabler, Olivia Benson, Sandra Day O’Connor, and RuPaul were the troublemakers,” Gennie said. “Unsurprising, with that group,” Grace said. “Go on.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I love you. I mean, I fucking love you, Shay. I’ve loved you for years upon fucking years and none of the garbage leftover from your ex or your mother or anyone else is going to change that. You will not change that.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Why hasn’t anyone thrown me over their shoulder?” she asked. “I’m down for that. Pick me up, toss me around, treat me like a rag doll. Yes, sir. Give me some of that.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“This man was shy. While also being enormously bossy.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“If I wasn’t forgettable, people wouldn’t be able to leave me so easily and go on with their lives like nothing was different. And it just keeps happening. That’s how I know it’s true.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“High school sweethearts” was Noah’s explanation to all their questions. It rolled right off his tongue, just the way it had with Christiane. I didn’t know how he did it. “Always known she was the one.” When that wasn’t enough, he was quick to add, “Didn’t waste a minute when she came back to town. I’d already wasted too many waiting for her to come home.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“There was no one else for me. My world started and ended with her sitting beside me on those dark morning rides to school, and it started up all over again when I found her on my farm.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“When she returned my wallet to the pocket and gave my ass a swift pat, I was toast. Just fucking done.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“It takes nothing at all to convince ourselves that we know someone’s values and their intentions. That we know their heart. And it’s devastating when they show us who they really are.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I wanted to take a sample of his tone and study it under a microscope because I couldn’t see how someone could be both bored and confrontational inside a handful of words. It was art.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Shay had always had one of those faces meant for smiling. Not every face was meant for smiling but Shay’s was one of them.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Wait.” I reached for him but he gathered my hands and looped them around his neck. “What do I taste like?” He nuzzled into the crook of my shoulder and replied with a soft growl. “My wife.” “That’s not a taste.” “Mmm. It is now.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Because my wife was alone and upset in a strange bar and speed limits don’t apply in those situations.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Hope was such a sticky thing. And it was sneaky too. Always showing up in the moments it was least welcome.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Shay wiped her hands on a dish towel and busied herself with straightening everything on the countertop. Tiny touches and nudges. The smallest possible imprint. And now it was everywhere. She was everywhere. And I’d never be able to forget it.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I felt like I’d been waiting a very long time for someone who knew how to shatter me and also wanted to pick up all the pieces.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I wish I loved something enough to know I wanted to spend my life doing it but loving stuff is scary. It’s a goddamn danger to my health. These things that people love, they often turn around and destroy them.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“I just – I want you to want me,” she whispered.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you, wife. I do. I want you so much it would scare you to know the half of it.”
“You can’t scare me,” she said … “But go ahead and try.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“Thank God she didn’t know I was half hard and fully obsessed with her.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam

“It was awesome to get everything I’d ever wanted only for my wife to remind me on a daily basis that it wasn’t real and wouldn’t last. Fucking awesome.”
― Kate Canterbary, In a Jam