Betting on You Quotes

“When you’re in the room, every single cell in my body – every nerve, every muscle, every breath – is lost in you.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“We were both grinning, and for some reason, I felt an invisible string pulling me closer to her as she smiled up to me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“He teased relentlessly and was the funniest person I’d ever met, yet I knew for a fact that he listened to Conan Gray and Gracie Abrams on repeat all the time (I had his Spotify password).”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“But the thing about relationships was that no one else knew the quiet, tiny moments that belong exclusively to you two. Those were the things that made you hold tight because you were the only one he’d shown that side of himself to.
No one else knew.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Karma was supposed to be a cat, dammit, not this.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Getting under her skin was my new favourite hobby.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Maybe karma was a girl in glasses.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“And by "prefer lighter reading," she meant that she read five or six romance novels. A week”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“You are fucking gorgeous when you’re kiss drunk, Mitchell, did you know that?”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Maybe I should give him a taste of the Bailey special.”
“Cow tongue on toasted bread.”
“No. it’s Moldova but with my hands on his chest.”
“Don’t you fucking dare.”
“You don’t want me to kiss him.”
“Your call on that. But Moldova is mine.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“You and I, though – we were us.”
“Us?”
“Magical, comfortable, Colorado us. We were everything together.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I wasn’t sure how she knew me so well, how she’d somehow always seen me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“It took losing her for me to realize that loving her wasn’t even a risk.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Maybe but the bottom line is, now that I’ve seen what Bay could be to me, seeing her as just a friend is impossible.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I love you, Glasses." "I love you, too Mr. Nothing”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“How can someone be so interesting and irritating, all at the same time?”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I was never going to get another text from Bay. I was never going to make her forehead crinkle with my words, or hear her laugh in that surprised way she had when she tried and failed to suppress it, never going to hear her quiet intake of breath when she realised we were about to kiss, and never going to hear her sleepily say ‘G’night, Charlie’ on the other end of the phone.
A thousand tiny nothing moments that were collectively every fucking thing I’d ever wanted.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“A thousand inside jokes stood between my heart and closure.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“She was twenty things that annoyed me, all rolled into one, but there was something oddly relaxing being around her.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I was in the middle of drawing eyeliner tails (harp enough to kill a man, of course)”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Everyone started yelling out suggestions, and then Charlie said, “ ‘All Too Well.’ The ten-minute version.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“She was a fascinating contradiction.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“He spoke my name as if it were a curse or an exaltation, something that moved him, for better or worse.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“The only thing you like about me is my voice?? Bailey: Not what I said. I said it’s my FAVORITE thing, because you’re relaxed and mellow when your voice gets like that. Your edges soften a little. My edges. I wasn’t sure how she knew me so well, how she’d somehow always seen me. I spent most of my time feeling like everyone in my life didn’t get me, yet there was Glasses, seeing right through me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Somewhere between Omaha and Colorado I’d fallen truly, madly, fucking ridiculously hard for Bailey Mitchell. She was all I could think about, all the time, and sometimes it felt like I’d do anything—anything—just to make sure she was happy.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“A thousand tiny nothing moments that were collectively everything I'd ever wanted.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“God, I wished I were in my room right now, rereading that Emily Henry book.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I eat it all. I just like to eat the cheese and toppings first, then the crust.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Bailey, you are, hands down, the most engaging person I’ve ever known.” My heartbeat skittered in my chest as he spoke the words like he really had fallen for me. “Engaging?” “Wholly.” His eyes burned into mine and he said, “When you’re in the room, every single cell in my body—every nerve, every muscle, every breath—is lost in you.” My knees literally went weak, as in I felt like I was about to collapse.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“It took losing her for me to realize that loving her wasn't even a risk.”
― Lynn Painter , Betting on You