Mixed Signals Quotes

“Why are you giving these guys your time? Why are you settling for crumbs when you deserve the whole damn cake?”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“You keep showing me pieces of yourself that I want to collect like seashells.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“I know I can be too much, but I think I’m just enough for you. I have no interest in forcing you into anything,” he continues. “But I want you to know that this past month with you has been the very best I’ve ever had. I should have told you that last night, but I was overwhelmed and nervous and everything came out wrong. Arrangement or no, everything I’ve felt with you, everything I’ve said to you—” He shakes his head slightly, that smile finally tripping from his eyes to the curve of his cheeks. I get the barest hint of a dimple before it’s gone again. “It’s been the most honest—the most real thing I’ve ever felt.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“There may be plenty of fish in the sea, but most of those fish are bottom-dwellers with weird lanterns hanging off the front of their faces.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“Why can’t I find a single human being that I connect with? My standards are not impossible. I want someone who makes me laugh. Who cares about what I do and what I say and what I think. I want to sit on the couch with someone in blissful, perfect, comfortable silence—pizza on the coffee table and my feet tucked under their thigh. I want someone to hand me the recipe section of the local paper while they read the headlines. I want to share all of my small, silly, silent moments. I want someone to give me butterflies.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“He didn't kiss her," my grandmother offers from the stove. "When she wanted to be kissed."

Charlie leans back in his seat with a heavy, disappointed exhale. "Dude." His eyes are like saucers. "You gotta kiss her when she wants to be kissed.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“You look nice,” he says, voice hoarse. “I look like a drowned rat.” “A nice one, though.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“I collect my frustration like Gabe’s wayward assignments and stack it into something neat and tidy in my chest.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“Where are you from?” he asks. The depths of hell. Sent to destroy men who lie on the internet and are mean to those in the service industry.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“Has anyone ever fought for her the way she deserves?”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“Why are you settling for crumbs when you deserve the whole damn cake?”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“I am so tempted to get up from my seat, walk through the tables, and step into the ocean. It sounds infinitely more appealing than another moment with Bryce.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“I tell you this because"—she scoops her spoon around the outer edge, eyes far away— "I tell you this because you are so like your grandfather."

"I see things that aren't really there? " My stomach swoops low. "I embellish?"

"No," she says with a steely thread of determination. "Because you love with your whole, entire heart. And that is a beautiful thing.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“What do I get for keeping your secrets, Layla Dupree?”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“I see you, Layla Dupree.” He says it so firmly, so resolute, that I can’t help but believe him.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“An outbreak room and a zombie apocalypse room?” Eric nods. “Billy is super into the undead.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“I’m starting to see that she relies on touch to communicate, and I rely on it to understand.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals

“A bacon and egg sandwich.”
― B.K. Borison, Mixed Signals