Happily Never After Quotes

“Are you laughing at me?”
“I'm enjoying you.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I fought it hard, because trust me, this is the last thing I want. But now you consume me, Soph, every single part of me, and I like it. I can't drive without thinking about your impractical car, can't run without thinking about the way you run, can't put on a fucking hard hat without picturing the way you looked in that stupid yellow hat. Somehow you've become my centre, and God help me, it feels right.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Who’s your famous dream date?” “Charles Leclerc,” she said, without even pausing. “Who the hell is that?” I asked, picturing some period piece dramatic actor. “Formula One driver. French, maybe. Hot.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Fuck me, I'd fallen so hard that I wasn't even trying to get up.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“But, Soph, I know that I like you more than anyone else in the world. And that's it, isn’t it – the thing that matters? Fuck love and relationships, I just want to be with you because you're my goddamn favourite person. And I feel like it's going to be impossible for you not to trust my feelings because you're going to see them in my eyes every time I look at you.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“You can’t fuck around with chemistry, you silly little asshole. If it were possible to just kiss someone you don’t give a shit about and move on, don’t you think everyone would be doing it all the time? I’d go HAM on Roger in produce at Russ’s Market if that were the case.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Her smile was like a power switch that controlled the brightness of my universe all of a sudden, and it was exhilarating and terrifying , all at the same time.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I can't imagine any two people more right for each other than us. I can't imagine any reason why we shouldn't be together when we both feel so much for each other.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“It felt like my interest in her was getting out of hand, but I had no plans to dial it back. I just liked her too much.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“She was so pretty that it kind of took my breath away, and I was glad I was wearing sunglasses so she couldn’t see how much time I spent looking at her.
Because her pretty had layers.
Her red lips, brown eyes, long lashes – she was gorgeous. But her beauty was amplified by how smart and how fucking funny she could be. She was fascinating to be around, as in all I wanted to do was listen to her and learn all the weirdly wonderful ways her mind worked.
God, I was in deep.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I don't want to sound like an asshole misogynist, Soph, but I don't think I've ever seen a woman look this gorgeous in real life.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I fought it hard, because trust me, this is the last thing I want. But now you consume me, Soph, every single part of me, and I like it... Somehow you've become my center, and God help me, it feels right.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“You cannot touch me, Steinbeck, without shattering me”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“You keep telling yourself that, poopsie.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Who’s your famous dream date?” “Charles Leclerc,” she said, without even pausing.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“That we’re ‘Captain Dipshit and the Brainless Twit,’ to quote him,”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I’m over him. I don’t want him back, but I don’t know if I’ll ever be over us.”
“I get that.”
“Do you? Because I'm not sure I do. Like, when will I stop being shocked by how full the medicine cabinet is, now that it's Rose and Larry living with me instead of Stuart? Or how quiet it is when I get home from work? When will the damn theme song to The Office not make me sad? Why can't I not care about all the little things that pop up on a daily basis and remind me of what I thought we'd be?”
“Because it was your whole world. Every moment of every day belonged to the two of you, together. So how do you not feel a loss when those moments are only yours now?”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I’m sorry he made you cry,” I said, putting my hands in my pockets so I didn’t do something stupid like touch her. “I don’t know you well, but I know that Sophie Steinbeck should only ever be laughing.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Having my heart eventually broken by Max couldn't feel much worse than it felt to not have him in my life at all, could it?”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I'm sorry, Soph, but I just couldn't hurt her like that."
"But you were fine with hurting me.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Me: I FORGOT to insult Stuart when I saw him today!!
Max: Holy shit! Proud of you. You're on your way.
Me: To...?
Max: To almost never thinking about him.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“And when the wave slammed into me, pulling me under and sending a thousand stars to the darkened sky behind my eyes, I kissed him harder and brought him with me.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Max wasn't a dirty talker, but he was a foulmouthed cheerleader.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“Every moment of every day belonged to the two of you, together. So how do you not feel a loss when these moments are only yours now?”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I was grasping for purchase as he set me on fire, and any collateral damage was entirely his fault.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I thought you said you have a life."
"I do, but I suddenly feel like saving someone else's.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I guess I just want to remember the night I reconnected with happy for a few hours.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“What kind of psychopath wasn’t on social media?”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“You cannot touch me, Steinbeck, without shattering me."

"I want to watch you shatter,"

"I...want to shatter inside of you”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I knew without a doubt that I could kiss him forever and never lose a single”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After