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Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1) QUOTES

Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1) QUOTES

1 " Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

2 " The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

3 " Lucas: I wanted to talk to you after class, but you disappeared.

Me: I have another class right after. One of those profs who stops talking, stares at you and waits until you get to your seat if you're late.

Lucas: I would probably just walk to my seat even slower. ;) "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

4 " Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

5 " We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down— locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don’t hinder running. Erin’s suggestion of “Avoid assholes” was popular. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

6 " I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be deeper, more resilient. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

7 " I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and I waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you looked pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

8 " I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

9 " I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

10 " I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

11 " But girls willing to share your bed don't equal girls willing to put up with your random crap moods, listen to your exhaustive legal opinions, or support your life's goals the way someone who loves you would. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

12 " She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

13 " Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

14 " He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

15 " My last coherent thought, as Lucas took his time kissing and touching every part of me he could reach and my body arched into his, was: oh... so this is what all the fuss is about. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

16 " Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing—which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

17 " I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

18 " He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

19 " You're so beautiful. "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)

20 " I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That i'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me? "

― Tammara Webber , Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)