Quotes from Kristan Higgins

He's had some drug and alcohol issues, but he's getting clean now." Oh, fuckety fucking McFuckster. Not bad enough that he still had a chip on his shoulder. He was a drug addict, too. And lived just down the road. "Think he's dangerous?

The baby would be raised by committee as I tried to earn enough to cover our costs: Health care. Food. Clothes. A car seat and all the other gear.

Jen told me most birth mothers wanted at least some contact with the adoptive family after the baby was born. I pictured my little brother, what it would be like to say goodbye to him over and over, leaving him with someone else, his sweet little face in the window as I drove away. "I don't think I will," I said after a minute. "It sounds like torture for both of us, to be honest.

This, I told myself, was why I should date someone for a long, long time before sleeping with him. So I could know what kind of person I was letting into my life and my body. Zach was a boy; a spoiled, self-centered child in a man's body. Not once had he asked how I was.

Love is not all you need. Don't believe that lie

The past isn't a compass for the future

Parenthood was ninety percent forgiveness, ten percent lies and a hundred percent love

Love was not all you needed. You needed to match, to fit, to want the same things

There's something about being near the ocean that puts your life in perspective. It's reassuring, that's what it is.

Beri aku kesempatan. Kali ini dengan cara yang tepat.

I looked down at myself, clad in my usual jeans and snarky T-shirt (Books: Because people are horrible, a bestseller at my store).

Sympathy, not pity. There's a huge difference, and we widows appreciate it, let me tell you.

She missed her dad with a constant ache. She missed the reassurance, the comfort a good father brings a daughter.

The thing is, when you lose someone like we have...it's like part of your heart is cut out. And you always worry about how much more you can afford to lose.

I want you to know that this is not some passing thing. I look at you and I see the rest of my life.

I decide I feel fond of him. And hey, fond is underrated. Fond can last a lifetime. Fond doesn't leave scars.

The best thing in a girl's life is a father she can count on.

There are only perfect, glowing moments, like this one, and then there are the everyday moments that weave them together into a shimmering path that can always be seen, even in the dark. "You

Swallows were favorites of mine, swooping on the water, tails spread in their graceful arc. Plus, they were lucky. They represented a happy home . . . and, if you were feeling morbid, the soul of someone who died.

Einstein told me I was smart. Maybe I'd get a tattoo of those words.

try to get money from him that's not in the form of alimony. You won't get taxed that way. Get him off your insurance plan.

understood. Blue highlight | Location: 2,477 I smile at everyone because I'm afraid they hate me on sight, so I try to be extra sweet. Though I don't do it on purpose, I even talk in a softer, higher-pitched voice than I use when I'm talking to myself, or with Marley or Georgia.

When you're living with a ticking clock, you can't be a loser. You can't think about what you won't get to see, what you'll never have. Ain't no one got time for that.

Good afternoon, residents! A reminder that our salsa dance class starts in ten minutes." "Shall we go to that, Gram-Gram?" I said. "A lot of times, meeting someone in person is best." "Only women go to salsa dancing." "Maybe you should become a lesbian, then. It would solve that pesky life expectancy problem.