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Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1) QUOTES

Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1) QUOTES

1 " When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

2 " If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

3 " There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

4 " may all your children have kind hearts, quick wits, and green thumbs "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

5 " I shivered, also moving closer, irritated by the layers of clothes between us. "You're such a good teacher, you fell for your student." "Yes, I did." His beard tickled my neck as he sucked my earlobe into his mouth. “And I continue to fall, daily. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

6 " Talking, I was beginning to suspect, was the root of all evil. The ease of it in particular was an issue. Talk it out. Talk it over. Talk it through. Useless. If more folks thought it out, thought it over, and thought it through instead of talking, then the world would be less cluttered with opinions and assholes." Cletus Winston "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

7 " she held a part of my soul. When we spoke or touched, that piece returned home, and the rest of my soul rejoiced at the reunion. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

8 " You have a big heart. I would never trade your mammoth, irrationally generous heart for a smaller, more frugal one. I love every square kilometer of it.” A laugh tumbled from my lips and I lowered to the couch. “Really? It’s that big?” “It should have its own zip code. And it’s my third favorite thing about you. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

9 " If you can’t hold your temper in society, then you don’t get to be part of society. Those are the rules. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

10 " If we allowed folks to pick fights whenever they experienced unruly emotions, then everyone in town would walk around with a black eye. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

11 " She breathed a little laugh, stepping closer, her other hand coming to my jaw. “You are one in a million.” “And you are one of a kind. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

12 " We were still at the beginning, our beginning, and I'd never been as truly happy in my entire life as I lived and breathed and endured during the moments we spent together. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

13 " I love you so much, and I miss you. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, Cletus Winston.” “I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, Jennifer Sylvester. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

14 " Make choices that allow you to sleep at night. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

15 " Where were his dubious morals when I needed them? "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

16 " the truth, that being in love means my beloved takes precedence over even my own comfort, persnickety future mother-in-law notwithstanding. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

17 " Be suspicious of folks who tell you what you want to hear. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

18 " It was just as easy to be beige around stubbornly ignorant folks as it was to be colorful around those with a thirst for knowledge and truth. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

19 " marriage can be a mountain shrine, or it can be a garbage heap. At the end of the day, garbage or shrine, it’s still yours. And nothing is quite as difficult as letting go of what’s yours. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)

20 " One of my favorite pastimes—for the undeserving—is ruining enjoyable activities, destinations, and/or goods with facts. If you dig deeply and scrutinize enough, everything enjoyable can be made either problematic or disgusting. Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful, wonderful phenomena. "

― Penny Reid , Engagement and Espionage (Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1)