Grounding Quinn Quotes

“My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“I try to smile at her, but I can't extend my flexibility training to my mouth, it just won't move.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“You know what feels really fucking awesome? Loving someone so much that it's all consuming. Telling that person you love them, even though they refuse to say it back. And then finally hearing them say that they do love you, but to someone else. To someone they have slept with. Someone that isn't you. I want to forget I heard those three words. I want to dissolve the images I have in my heard of her with him. I think I'm going to throw up.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Does it ever make you sad?"
"Does what?"
"The Sunset,"
"Sad? Nah, I think it's peaceful."
"Not to me. I've always found it depressing."
"How so?"
"I guess because it's the end. I hate endings."
"Not all endings are bad though. I think of sunsets more as a clean slate. Besides, they're beautiful... like you"
"Beautiful things never last.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Part of me aches to touch her now that she's so close. But the other part, the logical part, wants to coast myself in Teflon, because I know that her being here, no matter what her reasons, is going to seriously fuck with my world.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“She's my best friend, and I know she means well, but as she talks I'm mentally calculating all the ways I could silence her. I'm bigger than her... I wonder if I could use my straw for some sort of MacGyver inspired weapon.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Beautiful things never last.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“You always hear people talk about how there are moments in your life when you just know that things will never be the same. I always thought that was all horseshit. But here, now, with the feeling of her soft, incredible lips moving with mine, I know that it happens.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Talking about myself makes me feel like I'm having an allergic reaction, especially when compliments are involved.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“I have no clue what my motive is for following him, maybe I'm just bored. Maybe it's just so easy to cyber-stalk hotties on Facebook that I've moved on to doing it in real life.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“His massive frame occupies most of the doorway. He looks like a linebacker, or is it a quarterback I'm thinking of? The point is, he's a total Sasquatch. His t-shirt and preppy knit cardigan clash with his gargantuan body. Still, he's a decent eye candy.
"What can I help you with?" she asks. Her eyes dart back and forth between me and the yeti.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn.

Just consider it an amuse-biatch.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Would that be okay? It's just a day trip. I mean I know we just met yesterday, so, it's not like creepy or anything?" His confident grin falters for a quick second, long enough for me to snap out of my idiotic stupor.

That sounds awesome. I nod. Let me just grab my bag.

He lets out a relieved sigh and smiles. I fight the urge to stand on my tip toes and reach his lips. Because my guess is that cramming my tongue down his throat right now, would be creepy.”
― steph campbell, Grounding Quinn

“So, what is this?" I ask.
Quinn narrows her eyes at the morsel of food that vaguely resembles a cross between a chicken nugget and brains. Only slimier.”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“I fight the urge to stand on my tip toes to reach his lips. Because my guess is that cramming my tongue down his throat right now, would be creepy”
― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“When my mouth meets hers, I swear that from that second on, she has me. You always hear people talk about how there are moments in your life when you just know that things will never be the same. I always thought that was all horseshit. But here, now, with the feeling of her soft, incredible lips moving with mine, I know that it happens.”
― Steph Campbell, Grounding Quinn