When Gracie Met the Grump Quotes

“I didn’t want to like you. I didn’t plan on feeling this protective of you and your smile and your heart. Definitely didn’t want to fall in love with you and your secrets. But then you had to go off and say, ‘You snooze you lose, motherfucker,’ and I knew my life was never going to be the same after that.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Because my gut said this man wasn’t a ball of sunshine. I had a feeling he wasn’t even a night-light.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Loneliness was a hemorrhoid you couldn’t see but could always feel was there.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“You helped me when you didn’t want to, when it put you at risk. I know what it’s like to do shit you don’t want to do, but you do it anyway because it’s the right thing.” The Defender tilted his head and looked at me so, so seriously. “People think doing the right thing is easy, but it’s not. The right thing is hardly ever convenient.” His eyelids dropped”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“If you can’t worry about losing something you find precious, it probably isn’t all that valuable to you in the first place.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“Gracie, put the knife back in your pocket and come here. They can’t hurt me, and they aren’t going to hurt you.” His eyes glowed even brighter. “I promise.” I held it a little tighter just to spite him telling me what to do, but I didn’t move. “Tell her you’re not going to hurt her,” he demanded. I could see both heads move from him to me and back again. “Tell her,” he repeated. “She’s been itching to stab someone for a couple weeks now.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Did God give you strong bones because he knew you were going to have a personality people wanted to hurt?” I snapped.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“There is no place I wouldn’t look for you. Seven miles deep in the ocean. On a planet in a distant galaxy. I would go anywhere for you if someone took you, Gracie,”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“You can’t be that dense,” he sighed suddenly.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Some people say that the opposite of love is fear. But the truth was, without fear, there can’t be love. If you can’t worry about losing something you find precious, it probably isn’t all that valuable to you in the first place.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“I missed my Crabby Pants, I thought just as my heart freaking pulsed. Oh no. Oh, no, no, no.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“His eyebrows rose a little. “Do you know how many people tell me to fuck off?” “Not enough?” I whispered sarcastically,”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“I have… a sense of humor,” he tried to claim, actually looking and sounding serious. I pressed my lips together. “If you say so.” “I do,” he insisted. “O-kay.” That got me an icy glare. “I don’t like… your tone of voice.” I really got way too much of a kick out of this. “I don’t really like yours either, if I’m going to be honest.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“as he said, “Best friends don’t break their best friend’s hearts.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“hurts my feelings that I’m right here, that you’re right there, and you still think that you’re ever going to be alone again.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Then he smiled at me, and I knew exactly what it was like to finally look forward to the future.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“Why are you so nice to me now when you wouldn’t look me in the eye a few minutes ago?” I gave him a side-look. “You get on my nerves, don’t get me wrong, but in a way… I don’t know. I feel kind of a kinship to you. We both didn’t ask for certain parts of our lives, and we’re just doing our best.” I shrugged. “Some battles we have to fight by ourselves, but maybe not all of them, even if it’s just a little, itty-bitty thing someone can help with. Something little is still something.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“Promises were only worth something when there was trust between people. Friendship didn’t equal trust.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“You’re my first friend in a really long time, and I know you said you don’t want to like me, which means you don’t want to be my friend either, and I get it, but it still means so much to me.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“I keep asking if I did something in another lifetime to make you dislike me, and you keep not answering. You know that?” That dark gaze moved over my face, and he scrunched his nose just a little bit. “It’s not your fault I don’t want to like you. What do you know about your family?” He didn’t want to like me? What did that mean? Why?”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“He was thirty-five?”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“I don’t know where this marshmallow filling inside you is coming from, but I’m all about it”
― Mariana zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“People think doing the right thing is easy, but it’s not. The right thing is hardly ever convenient.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“I know this is probably hell for you, but you can count to three hundred and then push me off”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“you've said that I saved your life, but you saved mine. You did it without being able to fly. Okay?”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met the Grump

“Because in what universe would a man like him end up with someone like me? I folded the note and slipped it into my pocket. His handwriting was scribbly, and it made me smile that there was one thing he wasn’t good at. I could make fun of him later and remind him about that time he’d lost at the carnival over and over again.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Do you really need to be that low class?” Achilles snapped. “Fuck no,” Alex said without missing a beat. I didn’t think I’d ever been so attracted to him before. I kind of wished I had some popcorn.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Alex’s sigh was long. His arms crossed over his chest. “You make it really hard to not like you.” I hadn’t seen that coming. I hadn’t seen that coming at all. His mouth went flat. “You say whatever the hell is on your mind, and you annoy the hell out of me sometimes.” And there we go. I blinked. “Don’t hold back.” Alex blinked right back. “You’re stubborn as hell, Gracie, but you make it hard to not like you.” Dammit.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“Those fingers slipped deeper through my hair, fully cupping the back of my head. “I’m sorry, Gracie,” he said. “What?” I jerked. Did this… man… just apologize? I stared at him. He stared at me. “For being a butthole.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump

“He watched me, the crease in his brow a stubborn line that confirmed my mood wasn’t the only one that hadn’t gotten better. Whatever had crawled up his ass had built a little home with a pool and wasn’t planning on going anywhere anytime soon.”
― Mariana Zapata, When Gracie Met The Grump