Will They or Won't They Quotes

“The woman he’d carried a torch for for almost ten years, whom no one else could hold a candle to.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“That was the thing about Lilah that had always scared the shit out of him: that she was fully, terrifyingly, immutably herself, whether anyone else liked it or not. Whether they liked her or not. She was fearless in a way that he, a people pleaser to his core, could never be, which from the very beginning had intimidated him ten times more than her already formidable talent.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“They spoke the secret language of old friends, that unconditional love and acceptance that could only come from years of shared history.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“But I was always trying on different things when I was growing up, different personas, trying to figure out who I was supposed to be. I never really felt the urge to commit to anything permanently like that.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“Hopefully there's life after life after death.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“His favorite aunt, the one who'd been married five times (but to only three different husbands).”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“She'd already met more than her fair share of conventionally hot people with the charisma of a rock.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“Her therapist at the time had introduced her to a concept called “the spotlight effect”: the idea that you think people are paying much more attention to you than they actually are. Assuming that a friend didn’t respond to a text because they hated you, that a group that burst out laughing as you walked away was making fun of you. But the truth was, most people were focused on themselves, wondering what everyone else thought of them. The idea had liberated her.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“She suddenly understood, with a nauseating surge of regret, what a precious thing she’d been so careless with all those years ago, too blinded by distrust and self-loathing to see it standing right in front of her, if she’d only been brave enough to reach for it.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“It was so different from his own approach to relationships, especially when he was younger — offering up his heart indiscriminately, perpetually optimistic that it would be taken care of. Like being consumed by the act of loving, the validation of being loved, would give him some clarity of purpose. Tell him who he was, who he was supposed to be.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“She couldn’t exactly be the one that got away if he could never fucking escape her.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“She’d always had a hard time understanding people like him, the perpetually unruffled, who inspired envy and frustration in her in equal measure.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“It was kind of funny, in a ghoulish way: the two of them forced to reanimate the corpse of their former intimacy, without even the barrier of their characters to hide behind.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“Still, he’d never been able to shake his constant, involuntary awareness of her, like there was some Lilah-specific radar burrowed deep beneath his skin that couldn’t help but ping out a warning whenever she was in close proximity.”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“Yeah, I was in love with her”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They

“That motherfucker”
― Ava Wilder, Will They or Won't They