Chick Lit Quotes

“You were always mine. -Black”
― L.J. Shen, Vicious

“All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”
― Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

“Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct."
"Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages."
"I doubt it."
"Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.
"Not seriously."
"Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know.
Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?"
"Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.”
― E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?”
― Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin

“Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“Well, can you tell her that?"
He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."
Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.”
― Alisa Sheckley, Moonburn

“You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!"
"So many rules in this century," Vane muttered.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who’d ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who’d ever belonged where she hadn’t.

My mama warned me about guys like you.

He turned to her as if he’d heard her and took off his sunglasses, and she went down the steps to meet him, wiping her sweaty palms on her dust-smeared khaki shorts. “Hi, I’m Sophie Dempsey,” she said, flashing the Dempsey gotta-love-me grin as she held out her hot, grimy hand, and after a moment he took it.

His hand was clean and cool and dry, and her heart pounded harder as she looked into his remote, gray eyes.

“Hello, Sophie Dempsey,” her worst nightmare said. “Welcome to Temptation.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation

“The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“...sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out.”
― Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed

“Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS.”
― Jen Lancaster

“The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.”
― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

“Spilling a Secret

What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not
possible to predict
what will happen
if you
open the gunnysack,
let the cat escape.
A liberated feline
might purr on your lap,
or it might scratch
your eyes out. You can’t
tell
until you loosen the knot.
Do you chance losing
a friendship, if that
friend’s well-being
will
only be preserved
by betraying sworn-to
silence trust? Once
the seam is ripped, can
it be
mended again?
And if that proves
impossible, will you be
okay
when it all falls to pieces?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“Norman picked up a sketch, glanced at it, then put it back down on the table. "I saw Bea Williamson this morning," he said in a low voice. "Lurking about looking for cut glass."

"Oh, of course," Mira said with a sigh. "Did she have it with her?"

Norman nodded solemnly. "Yep. I swear, I think it's almost gotten ... bigger."

Mira shook her head. "Not possible."

"I'm serious," Norman said. "It's way big."

I kept waiting for someone to expand on this, but since neither of them seemed about to, I asked, "What are you talking about?"

They looked at each other.

Then, Mira took a breath. "Bea Williamson's baby," she said quietly, as if someone could hear us, "has the biggest head you have ever seen."

Norman nodded, seconding this.

"A baby?" I said.

"A big-headed baby," Mira corrected me. "You should see the cranium on this kid. It's mind-boggling.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“I can see the stars in your eyes from a mile away. They guide me to you just like the North Star.”

Then he bent his head and kissed her – a long, sweet kiss under moonbeams that caressed them both lovingly.”
― Kelly Curry, Happily Ever Afton

“Some people just don’t find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.”
― Charlotte Fallowfield, Until We Collide

“How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld

“She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“«Ogni scrittore, come lei sa, mette una parte di sé in ciascun personaggio. È sbagliato pensare che io sia il protagonista [...]. Sono ognuno di loro e nessuno di loro. Li ho messi sulla carta e ora vivono di vita propria, e quel poco per cui mi somigliavano è un'illusione, perché, una volta che io gli abbia dato la vita, faranno quel che gli pare. [...]»”
― Chiara Santoianni, Missione a Manhattan

“The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I’m absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don’t go, there’ll be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.”
― Lexis De Rothschild

“Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

“Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.”
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“For all the awkward girls that think they’re alone.
You’re not.”
― Alexa Riley, Guarding His Obsession

“We didn't, after all, sing "Another One Bites The Dust" as the coffin was carried out; Hazel and the vicar had settled instead on the more traditional "How Great Thou Art". And Aunty Rose's old adversary the mayor was pressed into service as a coffin bearer to replace Matt.
Rose Adele Thornton, born in Bath, England, died in Waimanu, New Zealand, a mere fifty-three years later. Adept and compassionate nurse, fervent advocate of animal welfare, champion of correct diction and tireless crusader against the misuse of apostrophes. Experimental chef, peerless aunt, brave sufferer and true friend. She had the grace and courage to thoroughly enjoy a life which denied her everything she most wanted. The bravest woman I ever knew.”
― Danielle Hawkins, Dinner at Rose's