31 Quotes by Maddie Dawson

Ah, love. Why does it have to get all convoluted?

This baby didn’t come from romance, it turns out. It came from somebody forgetting to put a condom back on and now he’s very, very sorry about that lapse.

I shouldn’t have come, and that’s the truth of it. It’s not even five o’clock in the afternoon, and I’m already fantasizing about a swift, painless coma. Something dramatic, involving a nice collapse to the floor, with my eyes rolling back in their sockets and my limbs shaking.

My own heart, given away to Noah, now stirs somewhere deep down, stretches, yawns, looks at its watch and rolls over, tries to go back to sleep. But it has one eye open, I notice.

When I brush against him, several of my more alert cells notice that he’s something we all once liked. They have conveniently and traitorously forgotten that we are not Team Noah anymore. We are Team Jeremy.

Don’t settle for anything you don’t want. That’s the main thing.

She had a mantra she lent me. I pinch my fingers and say it over and over again: Whatever happens, love that.

And how many times do I have to tell you? Whatever happens, love that. Because maybe, just maybe, everything is perfect.

She said that belonging was just a state of mind. That you had to create it yourself.