Rules for Rule Breaking Quotes

“Winter buried her face in her hands. “I’m sorry I don’t know how to act.
No one has ever told me they liked me before.”
“You don’t have to act different. You’re perfect as you are.”
“I am, aren’t I?” she said, and took a gulp of her bubble tea with a
satisfied ahhh. Her cheeks puffed out as she chewed on the grass jelly.
Bobby was deeply charmed and overwhelmed with the sheer cuteness. He
didn’t know what was wrong with him. It was like a dam had broken inside
of his own body, and all the discipline he’d been restraining himself with
for years wasn’t enough to stop him from grinning like a fool.”
― Talia Tucker, Rules for Rule Breaking

“I like you like this,’ Winter said. her eyes creased at the outer corners. She looked otherworldly with the moon staining her skin. her lips were pink and parted, and her cheeks were flushed from running. He reached to brush some flyaways away from her face but changed his mind and grabbed her hand instead. They scurried out of the light and didn’t stop until they were blocks away. Bobby’s blood was pumping fast, and his skin was bristling with the feeling of being alive. Winter had a smile splashed across her face, the creases staying firmly in place. an energy coursed through him that he was hesitant to acknowledge.”
― Talia Tucker, Rules for Rule Breaking

“Winter took in her surroundings. There was a tacky disco ball hanging in the center of the room and multicolored strobe lights bouncing off it. Cheap pink and lime-green streamers hung all over the room, as well as sparkling tinsel left over from Christmas. There were remnants of every holiday strewn about and champagne bottles on every table. If this was what getting old looked like, winter might not mind it. Each person in that room had lived such a life. They had had kids and grandkids and heartache and happy times. They probably had seen every peak and every valley the world had to throw at them. If she was going to learn how to make the most of her life, rather than just survive it, it was going to be from them.”
― Talia Tucker, Rules for Rule Breaking

“Winter realized this was probably the last summer she would spend with Emmy at the senior community. It was the end of an era marked by scraped knees, grass stains, slurped noodles, awkward phases followed by even more awkward phases, dancing under the sprinklers, bottling lighting bugs, giggling past bedtimes, and other endless summer memories.”
― Talia Tucker, Rules for Rule Breaking

“Her cheeks puffed out as she chewed on the grass jelly. Bobby was deeply charmed and overwhelmed with the sheer cuteness. He didn’t know what was wrong with him. It was like a dam had broken inside of his own body, and all that discipline he’d been restraining himself with for years wasn’t enough to stop him from grinning like a fool.”
― Talia Tucker, Rules for Rule Breaking

“Winter’s immediate impulse was to deny that she had a crush, but it’d been long enough. She did. She loved that he collected pens and obsessed over milk even though he couldn’t drink it. She liked that he cried. He didn’t have them anymore, but she even liked his stupidly long bangs and the way he used to toss his head back to get them out of his eyes. She liked that he ordered waffles at pancake houses and that he cared about absolutely everything and everyone, sometimes more than he cared about himself. Admitting it felt good.”
― Talia Tucker, Rules for Rule Breaking