Twice Shy
Sarah Hogle
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You ever think you were single for no reason and then you meet someone and realize you’ve been waiting for them without knowing it?”
“I never want anyone to hold me again if they don’t hold me like this.”
“During an argument that we had,” he tells me, pitch low, “you called me beautiful. And an insufferable ass. But beautiful. I haven’t gotten over it.”
“I’m not that strong at all but for you, I can be strong enough.”
“Not to be dramatic, but I would rather drink battery acid than be in the throes of a crush.”
“I think you are beautiful, too, Maybell. I think that you walked into my life and absolutely ruined it with how beautiful you are.”
“I think he’s under a curse—if he laughs, he’ll die. This is a sensible explanation to me. It isn’t that I’m not a joy to be around, it’s that he’ll literally die.”
“be able to just get up and leave if I wanted, for whatever reason, without grabbing people’s attention. Without being asked questions, and having to explain something I myself don’t entirely understand”
“I hate restaurants, because when I sit at tables I feel trapped. Something about sitting down across from someone and it being socially unacceptable to leave at any moment makes me panic.”
“get nervous about communicating with them because they don’t know me yet, and they don’t know the issues I have. I’m putting all my energy into trying to present myself as normal, which I get into my head about. Whether it’s real or not, I can’t stop imagining that they’re judging me. Which makes it worse. My mind goes blank, and I just . . . I can’t find the words. I freeze up. It’s mortifying when the words won’t come. It’s so much easier to pretend I have a personality where I don’t have any words for anyone, that I don’t care to, rather than not being able to find them.”
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Book Keywords:
cute, fluffy, anxiety
