Caroline Kepnes Quotes

It's all so un-Victorian.

if there's one dude that everyone on the Upper West Side will welcome with open arms, it's the fucking jogger.

You are a woman and I am a man and we belong in the dark together.

I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed." "Well, I mean it.

Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.

In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

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

All the joy is gone, somewhere along the way she broke her own heart and without a heart you can't get better.

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

I live for living

It's not the past if it's not finished.

6:08 and the next dude in line is buying the new King and The Shining just to be bold - he calls The Shining a prequel and I want to cut his face

Talking to you is like traveling through time.

Who can sleep with you in the world?

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

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

There is nothing remarkable about this 'guac', about any 'guac', and California needs to calm the fuck down.

There's emptiness in him that can never be filled, emptiness that dresses up well at prep school, where a lack of willpower is called creativity.

You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

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

It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

Your skin is a waste of space because there's no heart inside of you

Thank you so much." "Every time." "I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed.

I'll fucking kill Hugh Grant.

Eye contact is what keeps us civilized.

Amy is a Sharpie; she's passionate.

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

The real horror of my life is not that I've killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I've loved didn't love me back.

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.

Brunch, a meal invented by rich white chicks to rationalize day drinking and bingeing on French toast.

your friends "liked" your status in a way that leaves no doubt that you were the one dumped.

And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.

She cackles and her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you're blasphemous because all you want is You

This is why America loves Stephen King so much; he keeps us on the edge of our seats until it hurts.

Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones.

If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface?

Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck.

I imagine pushing you into the red abyss and jumping in after you, with you, so we can burn together, forever, a tree of life, light, sex.

we're too old to be young.

My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone.

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.

And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.

This is what all the love songs are about, the moment when
you find your own way forward with someone and there is no turning back.

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

You grow through love. You don't postpone love until you stop growing.

The world fell out of love with love at some point.

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.

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

you want to know what I know and hear what I like to hear.

He's been to rehab, which is a travesty; you can tell by his smug face that he's not capable of genuine addiction.

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

New England: All of the Bitterness, Most of the Boating, None of the Bullshit.

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

You're so clean that you're dirty.

Love is kind, love is patient but also, mainly, above all - yes - Love is perverted.

It's not romantic and it's a daylight date but I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance.

A poet is different. A poet transforms the world with Such small hands.

And part of the problem is that phone. You have that function on that fucking phone that enables you to know when your texts are opened and ignored.

Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.

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

Some guys are assholes and you have to accept that.

only takes one weirdo to spot you inside and decide to go and get you.

And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end.

You like words and I know words

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

We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.

Full of disclaimers, you're like a warning label on a pack of cigarettes.

She thinks she's so smart but if you erase an hour, it doesn't mean shit, not unless you erase the weeks leading up to that hour.

Because you're a girl, you included a photo of Mystic Pizza.

You are not easily rescued

She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It's lesser, smaller, worse.

I don't like this culture of reading a book and spitting out an immediate reaction.

you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist.

You gotta ignore people until they get in line, especially spoiled rich kids.

Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.

It's amazing how good 50 and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in 12 with a wind chill of go fuck yourself.

Whoever said running in the morning gives you energy never had a day job that involves customer service.

T-shirt lifts just enough so that you can see my midsection - you need something to dream about - and

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

That's why you leave the windows open. You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd be.

bBecause he simply doesn't see his dreams in detail, the kind of details that drive a person to pack their shit, to move.

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

Most kids are assholes, just like most adults.

Just eat it and shit it and be done with it and don't feel special cuz you eat that shit with someone because in the end we all shit alone!

Kate Hudson's entire career exists because people who fall in love sometimes tell lies about where they work.

You ooze joy and she is an open wound, shrill and wan, unfucked and unloved.

You finish sending a text and relax your arms and lower your legs and when animals open up like that, they want to fuck.

See how you were talking to me before you even knew me?

What makes us become us? What fucks us up and why?

They're in their own world, where good things happen, a quarter mile and a million light years away.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want."
"You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

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