Amy Plum Quotes

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."

Would you risk your life for love?

He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.

Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.