Love Interest Quotes

“The fact that I infuriated you only made me want you more desperately.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Do I really need to remind you what you whispered to me in this very elevator on your first day?”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“The funny part is my gut reaction is to come up with something to say next that won't make him uncomfortable. What would I do otherwise? Cause a scene? Claim harassment by a man who likely helped pay for the open bar I'm drinking at because he tapped my hip and clavicle? I hate myself a little for the passivity of it, but in professional situations like this, with my literal livelihood at stake, I revert to a sacred little girl who has internalized that under no circumstances should she ruffle affluent society's feathers.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“It all comes down to what you leave behind.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“His voice scalds me. “Don’t make me beg, Casey.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Yes, I download, use, and delete the app (in that order) every couple of months.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“It is because of the city, or the job, or the boy named Alex?" Jerry asks.

All of the above, my mind supplies. But really, those are just inputs, variables for an equation that adds up to the sum total of whatever's in my eyes Jerry noticed when I smile. I'm the one who made the decision to include them - the job, the city, the boy named Alex.

I push my damp hair out of my face and smile again. "Honestly, Jer... I think it's because of me.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Alex's honesty is so disarming, it scares me. He doesn't have walls anymore. He wants me to know him.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“But just because you don’t make art doesn’t mean you don’t inspire it.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“The necklace you’re wearing is engraved with ‘It’s Accrual World.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“I try to recall a single time my dad sent me to voicemail and can’t.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Behind Sara, two guys with matching hipster aesthetics are strapped up in camera gear. They eye me suspiciously. I eye them suspiciously right back.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Robert’s bastard works here,”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“I’m wearing a lightweight sweater that belonged to my mom.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Can you show us how to watch the YouTube video?”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“designing her OOTD in the floor-length mirror.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“I give him pointers on how to flip the camera to its front view.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Holding on to things I wish I could change never got me anywhere.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“I don’t have an accent.” He arches an eyebrow. “You do when you’re gearing up to say a curse word.” After a moment of consideration, he adds, “And when you’re hammered.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Math makes sense to me, and it doesn’t play games with you if you don’t play games with math”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“And why didn’t you get the nipple-top bottles? They taste better.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“There’s only one bed,” he blurts.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Fuck no. I am way too narcissistic to eat a nice meal without someone I can explain the dish to.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Second time. Second time we’ve ever touched.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“humming the Hamilton soundtrack under his breath.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Adderall screws with my appetite.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“His expression goes soft and open, and maybe even a little bit tortured,”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“We’ve featured chefs, professional athletes, TV personalities, Lin-Manuel Miranda,”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Whenever we’re in the same room, our disharmony comes off both of us in frustrated heat waves.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“And his eyes are … nice, and his voice is sort of scratchy. And he’s tall enough to loom.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest