A Love Letter to Whiskey Quotes

“One day, whether you are 14, 28, or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find—is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.—Beau Taplin”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Because the truth is you've always been mine, and I'll always be yours, and that's just the way it is.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Losing him hurt like hell, but in the end I still smiled, because at least I'd got to have him.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“It’s not. I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There’s more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“His heart belonged to me, just like mine would always belong to him.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Words don't get written from a heart that's never felt.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I should have listened, but if you haven’t learned by now, caution signs didn’t work when it came to Jamie.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Timing is a hell of a thing. In the end, that’s what it all comes down to. The potency of an attraction or the purity of a connection mean very little if you’re on separate journeys. You and I were a perfect fit, we were, there was just too much distance between us to see it.”—SEPARATE JOURNEYS | Beau Taplin”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“The Scottish are the only ones who can technically spell whiskey as “whisky.” They claim more vowels wastes good drinking time, and I wish I could have realized that then, because that’s exactly what I was doing — wasting time. Letting days and weeks and months of incredible, soul-shattering love pass me by because I thought I knew the right way to spell out the path of my life.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I’m not sorry I kissed you,” he clarified, and my eyes found his then. “But I’m sorry I did it when you weren’t mine to kiss.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I think sometimes life is about embracing what hurts, because pain is one of the most vivid emotions we can feel. Pain reminds us that we are alive, and I'll always appreciate that stinging reminder.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Because that's what life's about. It's about paddling out and fighting the waves until you find the perfect one to ride home on.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“It was just me – the alcoholic, pretending like I didn’t want to taste him, realizing too quickly that months of being clean didn’t make me crave him any less.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Turned out I was wrong. Turned out I had a rare, deliciously aged bottle of whiskey in my grip, but I let it slip through my slick fingers and crash to the floor. And I wasn’t the one allowed to pick up the pieces.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There wasn’t just a red flag, there was a warning bell and alarms and whistles and neon lights with DON’T DO IT in all capital letters.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“There was a little hate flowing between us as I carried her into my kitchen, but it was the kind of hate that was just across the thin line between it and all-consuming love. I hated her for what she’d done to me, for how she’d left me, for the time she’d denied us. But I also loved her so fiercely that it didn’t matter what she did to me — I’d still want her.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Timing is a hell of a thing. In the end, that’s what it all comes down to. The potency of an attraction or the purity of a connection mean very little if you’re on separate journeys. You and I were a perfect fit, we were, there was just too much distance between us to see it.” — SEPARATE JOURNEYS | Beau Taplin”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“sometimes selfish and smart are synonymous.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“What ifs are cruel motherfuckers.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“not. I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers. I get to feel the heartbreak and the high of love. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest romances of all time through books.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“My dad is Irish, and he has all these freckles all over his face. So when Mom saw the freckles on my cheeks, she thought about him, about that night, about the freckles she counted to get her through the eight minutes of him violating her.” My eyes flooded with tears and I batted at them hastily. I couldn’t believe I was crying, that I was finally feeling something after I’d been almost numb to it for so long. “She named me Brecks because it’s Irish for ‘freckled.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Jenna Kamp was the kind of friend you latched onto and never let go of. She was fiercely loyal, hilarious, and driven — which was exactly the kind of person I wanted to surround myself with.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“I should have cleared my mind. I should have called Jamie and told him not to pick me up for the game. I should have pulled up a picture of him and Jenna to remind myself where I sat on this tricycle. But I didn’t do any of those things. And I only wished I felt guilty about it.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Okay.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“started writing my love letter to Whiskey. I started writing the book you’re reading now.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“My headache turned out not to be my biggest issue. In fact, it was nausea,”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey