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Kristan Higgins QUOTES

1 " I don't get it, guys, I continued. I'd want to date me. Why is it so hard for me? I'm wicked fun, I dress nicely, I'm friendly... I'd love to date me. Wouldn't you? "

― Kristan Higgins , All I Ever Wanted

2 " Not everyone has to be in a relationship to feel good about themselves. Some people are better off on their own. "

― Kristan Higgins , In Your Dreams (Blue Heron, #4)

3 " Forgiveness is difficult,” she said, making me feel small-hearted and brittle. “You don’t have to trust Adam again, not right away, but it does mean you have to accept what’s happened and start to take steps away from the infidelity.” So once again, the burden is on me. Planning the wedding, though it was a genuine joy, was on me. Once we figured out why we couldn’t get pregnant, the burden was on me, too, with those horrible shots that made me so hormonal I had to go into the bathroom at work and cry, and everyone knew and was so nice, which made me cry more. All Adam had to do was switch to wearing boxers and have more sex. The pregnancy—me again. I’m the one with a four-inch scar and a pooch of skin. The house decorating, painting, hiring people to overhaul the plumbing and electric… me. His mother’s birthday—also mine to remember. Holidays, vacations, weekend plans, all mine. And while I would never call my girls a burden, the huge responsibility of raising them is 99 percent mine. And now the future of our marriage is on me. I have to forgive him. I have to accept his apology. I have to get past this. That first night, I lay stiffly next to him. He gave me a meaningful basset-hound look and said, “Thank you, Rachel,” and it was all I could do not to flip him off. "

― Kristan Higgins , If You Only Knew

4 " Book club meets every other month or so. Besides marriage counseling and the very occasional night out with my sister, I’m home twenty-nine nights out of thirty, and still the girls resent me. Not once have they ever complained about Adam’s late meetings—which may or may not have been booty calls for amazing porno sex. Me, I go out to my stupid book club, and I’m punished for it. "

― Kristan Higgins , If You Only Knew

5 " In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy. If you hear your husband farting in the bathroom seconds before he emerges and asks if you want to fool around, you generally don’t want to fool around. You might, after a few minutes, but you have to forgive your husband for… well, for being human. For eating a bean burrito. After all, you ate the bean burrito, too. "

― Kristan Higgins , If You Only Knew

6 " But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. "

― Kristan Higgins , Until There Was You

7 " If only…the saddest words in the English language. "

― Kristan Higgins , My One and Only

8 " She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing. "

― Kristan Higgins , Somebody to Love (Gideon's Cove, #3)

9 " When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. "

― Kristan Higgins , Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove, #1)

10 " The bewilderment is the worst part. That’s what they don’t tell you in divorce articles. They talk about anger and loneliness and growing apart and starting over and being kind to yourself, but they don’t tell you about the untold hours in the black hole of why. Why? What changed? When? Why was I the one you chose to marry, but all of a sudden, I’m not enough anymore? "

― Kristan Higgins , If You Only Knew

11 " I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person. "

― Kristan Higgins , Just One of the Guys

12 " Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier. "

― Kristan Higgins , The Best Man (Blue Heron, #1)

13 " I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart. "

― Kristan Higgins , All I Ever Wanted

14 " Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though...they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked noodle in the pasta salad of love. "

― Kristan Higgins

15 " Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself. "

― Kristan Higgins

16 " If you don't want to have a baby, that's fine. And if you want sex on the kitchen table, you'll get it." He glared down at his wife. "But you're coming home, and you're coming home now, and I will be happy to discuss this further once you're naked and in my bed." He paused. "Or on the table." His face flushed. "And the next time you leave me, you'd better mean it, woman, because I'm not going to be treated like a doormat. Understand? "

― Kristan Higgins , Too Good to Be True

17 " Family gatherings were... um, let's see, what's the word I'm looking for?... Hell. They were hell. Being the middle child, I served and referee and confidante, hostess and martyr. Did I feel we should get together once in a while? Sure. Did I want my family all together? Theoretically, yes. In reality, dear God, no. "

― Kristan Higgins , All I Ever Wanted

18 " Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better...noble and generous and beneficent. "

― Kristan Higgins , All I Ever Wanted

19 " And so I make a pact with the devil, or in this case, my mommy. "

― Kristan Higgins , Just One of the Guys

20 " It's safe to be in love with someone you know you'll never have. Nothing is really risked when you know you can't lose. He was a distraction, an excuse, and a friend. No more, no less. "

― Kristan Higgins , Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove, #1)