Faking Christmas Quotes

“You are a rush to me. Every time I make you smile, my heart rate goes through the roof. The way you blush and bite your lip and pretend to be annoyed when I tease you…” He patted his chest. “Straight shot of dopamine. Let’s not even talk about what your laugh does to me. But you’re not just my dopamine hit. You’re my soft place to land when I come back down. I don’t need you to go skydiving with me. Or rock climbing. I’m perfectly happy reading a book. Or hanging out watching a movie with you. But there are times when I’d want us to get out of our comfort zones. Make some memories. I want to pick our moments, whatever they are, and live them.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Technically, I went to bed at 10 pm, but in girl-with-a-Kindle time, it was actually closer to 2 am,”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“You’re on my Kindle. And I’ve read your books more
times than Jane Eyre.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“You can ‘what if’ your whole life
away. Relationships are always going to be scary, whether we work together or not. There are always unknowns, but you’ve got to take a chance on something, or else you’re going to spend your life wondering what could have been.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“I just feel like avoiding my problems has served me really well these past few months. I’d hate to ruin that now.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“and I realized that a person doesn’t reach the capacity for love. Love just is. It’s all-encompassing. There’s no trade-off. I don’t have to sacrifice my love for your dad or you and Chloe to love Russ. He doesn’t take any of your dad’s place in my heart because the heart doesn’t retract–it expands. My heart grew bigger for Russ. But I will always ache for your dad.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“He was my wings, and I was his nest.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“You started this whole thing. I'm just giving it a better ending.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“One thing I've learned through all of this, Olive, is that people don't fill up on love. There's no brim on the cup. Love overflows. It grows and bubbles over and over. I used to believe there was something I would be trading to let another man into my life. That I would have to give away a part of my heart that belonged to somebody else. And then I met Russ, and I realized that a person doesn't reach the capacity for love. Love just is.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“What kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn’t take care of my woman?” I stared after him. “The fake kind.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“And I’m not saying that going buck wild is the
only way to live. I couldn’t sustain that type of life. Reading books and swinging on the porch is living, too. There’s definitely a balance to be had. I just think that getting out of our comfort zone every so often is when the magic starts to happen.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“The first few years, I forced myself to do the big,
extreme things. To honor Kelly. But as I’ve gotten older, now I just do the things I want to do. The things that I think I’ll legitimately enjoy but still push me out of my comfort zone. I try my best to pick my moments. If I’ve learned anything from Kelly it’s that life comes and goes too fast. People are so casual with their time, especially when you consider that it can all be gone in a second.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“I had always allowed myself to cry in
private. But outside my doors, I was a rock. A machine. Holding myself rigid so as not to break. Any cracks or flaws at all and I would be done. Broken. I refused to be broken at work, or with my family. Only alone. Only at home.


But now I started to wonder if maybe being broken wasn’t a flaw. Maybe it was a beautiful shard of glass that could one day be made into a vase again. Maybe the flaw gave it character. It couldn’t be whole again, but it could be pieced back together—each unique shard helping to press and hold the others into place, some glue around the edges.
Almost like new.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Technically, I went to bed at 10 pm, but in girl-with-a-Kindle time, it was actually closer to 2 am, which made this wake-up call much worse than he probably imagined.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Technically”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“Getting out of our comfort zone every so often is when the magic starts to happen.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas

“I feel like avoiding my problems has served me really well these past few months. I'd hate to ruin that now.”
― Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas