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181 " With him, I wanted more. It was who I was. "
― Emily Henry , Beach Read
182 " I fought a smile, stifled a flutter in my stomach. A smile and a flutter weren't enough for me. I was done with secrets and lies, no matter how pretty. "
183 " Like we were costars in a movie and when the cameras weren’t on, we didn’t have all that much to talk about. But we wanted the same life, you know? "
184 " We can never fully know the people we love. When we lose them, there will always be more we could have seen. "
185 " This moment felt worth whatever pain it might bring later, and I tried to repeat that to myself until I was sure I'd be able to remember it if I needed to. "
186 " And sometimes I still want them, and other times I'm terrified of what I'd find out. "
187 " Sometimes—sometimes good, or at least decent, people do bad things. And sometimes they actually believe they’re doing what’s right. "
188 " You’re so fucking beautiful, you’re like the sun. "
189 " The beautiful lies were all gone, destroyed, and I was still upright. "
190 " And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. "
191 " Yikes', I said. Yikes? I sounded like a gum-popping babysitter trying to relate to her favorite Hot Divorced Dad. Which was sort of how I felt. "
192 " People clinging to whatever steadfast thing they could find?Yes. Yes, that made sense. It made perfect sense. "
193 " Sure, love happens," he said finally. "But it's better to be realistic so shit is not constantly blowing up in your face. And love is way more likely to blow up in your face than to bring eternal happiness. And if it doesn't hurt you, then you're the one hurting someone else."Entering a relationship is borderline sadomasochistic. Especially when you can get everything you would from a romantic relationship from a friendship, without destroying anyone's life when it inevitably ends. "
194 " Life is pretty much a series of good and bad moments right up until the moment you die,’ he said stiffly. ‘Which is arguably a bad one. Love doesn’t change that. I have a hard time suspending my disbelief. Besides, can you think of a single real-life romance that actually ended like Bridget fucking Jones? "
195 " Someone should invent a boredom EpiPen.’ ‘I think that’s essentially what drugs are, "
196 " not quite talked, but definitely interacted. "
197 " I wanted to know whether you could ever fully know someone. If knowing how they were—how they moved and spoke and the faces they made and the things they tried not to look at—amounted to knowing them. Or if knowing things about them—where they'd been born, all the people they'd been, who they'd loved, the world they'd come from—added up to anything. "
198 " People doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. "
199 " His knee bumped mine. I bumped his back. "
200 " More than once, I thought miserably. Something real, even if a little misshapen. "