Quotes from Caroline Kepnes

The problem with books is that they end.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.

You blush. You are Charlotte's Web and I could love you.

It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.

If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.

Some people on this earth receive love, get married, and honeymoon in Cabo. Others do not. Some people read alone on the sofa and some people read together, in bed. That's life.

Talking to you is like traveling through time.

Some people, it's like they care more about their status updates than their actual lives.

But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].

Well, sometimes you just want to go where it's dark, you know?

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

If you don't start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then you don't have a shot to go the distance. Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

And there is nothing more terrifying than realizing the one who knows you best loves you least.

Eye contact is what keeps us civilized.

I love Stephen King as much as any red rum drinking American, but I resent the fact that I, the bookseller, am his bitch.

A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.

Louisa May Alcott is right. An extraordinary girl can't have an ordinary life. Don't judge yourself. Love yourself.

Don't make a baby if you're not capable of unconditional love.

People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it's their birthday because Facebook told them.

Memories are all the same at their core; it's just us trying to keep each other alive, the best parts anyway.

When I'm nervous, I get nasty. It's a problem.