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The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2) QUOTES

The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2) QUOTES

1 " Good little girls who grew up into people-pleasing women didn't get that way through any innate altruism or feminine urge to keep the peace. We got there because we learned, at some point, that our needs were a problem best kept to ourselves. We were most worthy when our existence didn't bother anyone. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

2 " No! I'm a friend of the family," I replied. "That's such a funny way of saying you've hit on half of my sisters-in-law and selected my wife as your emotional support geologist." I was an asshole. We knew this. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

3 " In truth, I needed to go to a pink glass and teal velvet apartment and wrap myself around a heartbeat that I wanted more than my own. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

4 " One of the things I'd learned in the past few years of getting my shit on track and not allowing myself to self-destruct was that kids who grew up in chaotic homes were often highly sensitive to the smallest shifts in tone, behavior, energy. They learned how to protect themselves by picking up on subtle changes that often led to bad situations. They knew the pattern. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

5 " Being obsessively obedient and helpful was another. Everyone loved the kid who was so damn mature for her age. They never saw it as the outward manifestation of inner stress. They never stopped to ask how that kid got to be so mature. They never asked why she couldn't just be a kid. They only reaped the benefits. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

6 " I want you to trust me enough to let me hold these pieces of you. I like looking after you."
Reflexively, I said, "I don't need looking after."
He rolled his head against the back of his chair to stare at me, his eyes as dark as night and his pout infinitely kissable. "Yes, you do. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

7 " There were days when I left the hospital and I didn't have any words left in me. It was like I had a specific allotment, a number that varied daily and was never shared with me until I'd surpassed it. When I was out, I was out. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

8 " Emergency surgery didn't care whether my dick was in high spirits or not—and that was why this was the gig for me. I didn't have to think about myself at all. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

9 " The subtle part about living through a war and coming out of it changed, yet not having anywhere to put all of that change, hooked me hard. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

10 " I didn't even enjoy breakfast without her running commentary on the offenses of blueberries. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

11 " She loved meeting up for drinks after work, parties, brunches, dinners, farmers market visits, all of it. She wanted to go places and see people, and I needed a week to recover from a single outing. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

12 " A family is a bunch of people who love and care for each other unconditionally, people who show up for each other unconditionally. It doesn't have to be legal. Doesn't have to be blood. But "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

13 " A family is a bunch of people who love and care for each other unconditionally, people who show up for each other unconditionally. It doesn't have to be legal. Doesn't have to be blood. But it does have to be unconditional. Family can't blow each other off. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

14 " That we are alive right here, right now, is such a practical impossibility that it makes everything else seem insignificant. When I pull all the way back and I gather up the contents of this universe as we comprehend it, I see the existence of us—and our great struggles in that existence—as wild accidents. There are entire galaxies forming and dying beyond us, all while we are here in this moment, stumbling around in these fleshy, emotion-filled bodies. We are grains of sand, we are accidents, we are ridiculous miracles—and this is the one, outrageously impossible existence we get." She twisted the bottle of water open. "So, we're not going to let one hiccup get in our way. We're "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

15 " Her insecurities could fuck right off because there was nothing but plush, annoying perfection in of front me. That I was turned on enough by this woman to be dizzy was highly inconvenient. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

16 " around. We're not going to stop feeling everything. And we're not going to forget that we are impossible in the best way. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

17 " That perfect little tyrant knew exactly what she wanted. She just had to climb out of her head long enough to let herself want it. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

18 " No one will ever love you the way I do," he said. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

19 " I don't need the words. I already know what I need to know. I just need you to choose me. "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)

20 " She tapped the blue lines running up her arm. "Once upon a very long time ago, a red giant star digested all its helium and turned it into oxygen and carbon, which eventually morphed into iron. All that iron turned the star into a supernova and then its heart burned out the last of its fuel. There was a massive explosion, the likes of "

― Kate Canterbary , The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)