A Little Too Close Quotes

“Tell me we won’t ignore it. Tell me I can have you … Even if it’s just once.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“I’ve never wanted anyone this way.” He slipped the robe off completely.
“What way is that?” I went for his zipper.
He kissed me hard, settling me back down on the bed. “Like I’ll die from needing you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“You can’t know what you’re good at in life, what your passion might be, if you don’t try everything at least once.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“Everyone shows up when they’re needed,” I argued. She snorted. “No, they don’t. They like to think they do, but people who show up are rare.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“Sometimes I think we spend our adulthoods trying to heal whatever cut us as kids.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“You have every part of me. I love you.” I let my forehead rest against hers, and my heart seemed to slow and steady. “I know it’s love because I don’t just want you I need you, Callie. I need you more than air, or flying, or skiing, or anything else that makes me…me.” I need you to survive, and yet I will walk away if that’s what you want. I’ll do whatever makes you happy.” I picked up her hand and put it on my chest. “You just have to know that this is yours. You don’t have to want it, or need it, or accept it. It belongs to you, no matter what.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“If I wasn’t going to let her go, then I had to find a way to make loving me worth her while.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“Don’t love me. Please, don’t love me. I’m nowhere near good enough.” She deserved someone who could love her back just as fiercely.
I already hated whomever it was.
“Too late.” She shrugged. “I love everything about you, Weston Madigan.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“We’re really doing this?”
“Yeah. I think we are.” He nodded.
“Exclusively?”
“Exclusively.” He cupped my cheek and pushed back a strand of my hair that had fallen from my messy bun. “There’s no one else.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“It’s not going to be just one night.
His fingers flexed on my upper thighs.
“No, it’s not.”…
“I want you … I want whatever this is between us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“I, Calliope Thorne, was head over heels in love with Weston Madigan, fully knowing he avoided attachment like the plague, knowing loving him would eventually break my heart. But there was nothing I could do about it. It wasn’t the sweet, childhood love I’d had for Gavin, either. No, this love was messy, inconvenient, and worse…unrequited.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“I wanted Callie. It was that easy and just that tangled.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“The tension in the house was a live, bare wire just waiting to burn the place down.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close