Kandi Steiner Quotes & Sayings

Can we stop talking about penis fly traps for like two seconds? This is serious! — Kandi Steiner

Corbin, I don't know if I'll ever be able to break down all the walls I have. I can't promise you that I'll never run again, or that I'll never shut down. But what I can promise is that I've felt more alive in the past two weeks than I ever will again if you walk out of my life. — Kandi Steiner

I read romance because it's fun to fall in love. And with romance books, I get to do it over and over. I get to be different types of lovers, I get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. Love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and I think it's sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all time through books. — Kandi Steiner

How did I end up here? How did I land myself in this shithole? And what the hell do I do now? — Kandi Steiner

Every life-altering change stems from a series of small, seemingly meaningless amendments. — Kandi Steiner

You thought I would wait, and I thought you changed your mind." Jamie moved to me then, slowly, as if he was waiting for me to stop him. Then, he bent at the knee to meet me at eye-level. "I could never change my mind about you. — Kandi Steiner

I don't know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I've put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me. — Kandi Steiner

I was where I needed to be. I wasn't going to regret staying in Pittsburgh or taking the full-time job with Rye Publishing. I loved what I did, who I worked with, and how my future looked. I worked damn hard to make it to where I was. I knew going into my internship that the likelihood of me getting a full-time position was slim to none, and yet I'd impressed the shit out of them and landed a permanent spot. There were no regrets there. And, though I missed the surf, I really did love the city. I loved who I was becoming. Sure, I was lonely, but I had offers to go out - to make friends - I just had to start taking them. I could do that. — Kandi Steiner

He wasn't a tiny meowing kitten by any means, but he wasn't the pit bull I'd become used to, either. — Kandi Steiner

I'm sorry that up until now, I saw you as something I should quit instead of something I should fight for. My — Kandi Steiner

You sure you don't want to eat the tin foil, too? — Kandi Steiner

It took too long for me to realize I'd dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I'd broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn. — Kandi Steiner

You're a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless. — Kandi Steiner

What are your hobbies?" "Sports, weight lifting, drinking, fucking. — Kandi Steiner

Ew," I said quickly, shaking my head and walking forward. "You're sweatier than two rats fucking in a gym sock. — Kandi Steiner

Ignorance is a blessing as much as it is a curse. You can't crave what you don't know exists. The — Kandi Steiner

On a scale of one to sexy I'm at a solid awkward turtle ninety percent of the time. — Kandi Steiner

I'm still the same girl he dumped less than three weeks ago. Plus, he saw me yesterday when I'm pretty sure I looked like a sweaty walrus. She — Kandi Steiner

I saw him first, but it didn't matter. Because he saw her. — Kandi Steiner

You have to be mine after that," he breathed. He was still inside me and the intensity was too much to think, but I forced my way through the haze. "I can't." "Fuck that," he argued. "You can. You are. — Kandi Steiner

You're not just different, you're exceptional. And I think it's time that I make you feel that way, too. — Kandi Steiner

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

I knew from that moment on that all the fairy tale bullshit I was fed by Disney and everyone else was nonexistent. I stopped looking for it, got more realistic, and I've been fine. Until now," I look up into Corbin's eyes. "Until you. — Kandi Steiner

Love is wild and unruly and it does what it wants with our hearts without us having any say in it. It's beautiful and paralyzing and breathtaking. And it kills us because it's the only thing that keeps us alive. Love doesn't play our games because love is a completely different game in and of itself. — Kandi Steiner

Life doesn't exactly give us what we need when it's the perfect time. It's not a pitching machine straight over the plate. Life throws curve balls - hard and fast, unpredictable. But you still have to hit that sucker or strike out swinging. — Kandi Steiner

Sometimes, the darkness is where you find yourself. — Kandi Steiner

I never could have expected I'd lose so much of myself betting on you. — Kandi Steiner

Parties, boys, lavish events, boys, study groups, boys. Need I say more? — Kandi Steiner

He was beautiful. Crazy? Maybe. Intimidating? Definitely. But, beautiful nonetheless. — Kandi Steiner

No, it does matter. Because I'm getting married." "No, you're not." "Yes, I am!" Jamie stood, jaw tight. "You're not marrying anyone but me. — Kandi Steiner

College is an amazing experience, but it's up to you to ignore the drama and focus on the good. Avoid silly boys, ignore spiteful girls, and don't be afraid to have fun. — Kandi Steiner

And maybe that's what love was, giving someone the power to shatter you and trusting that they wouldn't. — Kandi Steiner

There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. — Kandi Steiner

Being that all of my intelligence is wasted in the classroom, my common sense is at exactly level zero. — Kandi Steiner

But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway. Maybe for the thrill, maybe to cure our curiosity, or maybe just to lie to ourselves a little longer. — Kandi Steiner

If my life was to be a story, I wanted to take control of the pen. I wanted to change the paper, crumple up what had been written so far and start over. I — Kandi Steiner

Sometimes we're more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don't deserve them, or that they aren't real, that they'll disappear quickly and easily and we'll be left in the ruins. — Kandi Steiner

Don't run," he breathes, his eyes searching mine. I can barely stand the way he looks when he says it. I know I've hurt him, but I don't want to run this time. I don't care about the bet, I don't care about who he was talking to on the phone. All I know right now is that the one thing I do care about is him. "Don't let me, — Kandi Steiner

Why, whatever were we thinking, Cassie?" I find my voice and try to keep up with the banter. "We're not being very ladylike, at all! — Kandi Steiner

We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations. — Kandi Steiner

But the most important thing is that we keep loving. We have to believe that at the end of the day, the love we have is worth all the bad stuff, because all the good stuff is what makes it so amazing. — Kandi Steiner

My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn't really hers to give in return. — Kandi Steiner

Thank God I have my fraternity brothers. Real families are a disappointment. — Kandi Steiner

You were right," I whisper. He sighs and I feel the air softly blow the back of my neck. He holds me tighter around my middle and buries his head into my back, his lips just barely touching the skin left exposed from my tank top. "I wish I wasn't. — Kandi Steiner

We all know I'm marrying you, as soon as you get over your thing with dog tags and realize a stethoscope is way sexier, anyway. - Tanner — Kandi Steiner

It's hard to find words to explain why you love someone, they don't make words with that much passion. And even if they did, there isn't a perfect combination of syllables and sounds to create a word strong enough to explain love. Love is just a filler word, a useless word that tries to do a job that no word can. — Kandi Steiner

I'm wondering if this was the right choice. This campus is crawling with walking, talking Barbies. — Kandi Steiner

You're weightless. The world hasn't touched you yet. You're not heavy with the weight of pain, and guilt, and selfishness. — Kandi Steiner

Finding something beautiful in the chaos. Rhodes — Kandi Steiner

You're light. Don't ever lose that. Don't let the world weigh you down like them. — Kandi Steiner

Don't act like you're not still attracted to me. Don't act like you don't watch me every class. Don't act like you don't have the same things going through your mind that I do right now. — Kandi Steiner

I want to meet the love of my life, marry her, fill our house with kids and do what I need to do to give them everything they need." "You — Kandi Steiner

An insecure man would rather laugh with the hyenas than chance failing a run with the lions. I — Kandi Steiner

I was spinning, tipsy, teetering on the edge of being wasted on Whiskey. I'd dreamed of kissing Jamie so many times, but nothing could compare to how it really felt - his hands on me, so strong, his mouth skilled and passionate. — Kandi Steiner

Words don't get written from a heart that's never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths - and they were my only release. — Kandi Steiner

I don't want to be just comfortable, Mom. I want a love that makes me everything but comfortable. If it doesn't drive me mad, if it doesn't break my heart at the thought of losing it, if it doesn't push me to new places and force me to grow - what kind of love is it, really? — Kandi Steiner

Everyone feels like they can hide behind a mask or a costume, but in the morning, they still wake up as the person beneath the mask. — Kandi Steiner

Sometimes you have to walk out on a limb, knowing you could fall thirty feet to the hard ground, just to see if that apple on the edge is worth the risk like you think it is."
"And what if it's not?"
"Then you get up, dust yourself off, and keep walking til you find the next tree. — Kandi Steiner

I hated him, I loved him, I hated myself for loving him. I hated myself for letting him go, for letting him find someone else. I was furious, but the truth was nearly everything he'd said about me was true. — Kandi Steiner

Two birds locked inside a cage, we aren't supposed to last,
And I guess we both could blame it on our past.
But I'm out of excuses if you're done with pretending,
I'm ready to start the story that doesn't have an ending. — Kandi Steiner

Whatever you choose, make sure it makes you happy. — Kandi Steiner

You know, they say that Bill Wilson asked for whiskey as his dying wish. The man was dying, at the end of the line, and he wanted the one vice he'd been fighting all his life. Even the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted whiskey on his deathbed. — Kandi Steiner

I lost you three years ago, I told myself I'd never let that happen again. It's important to me to be with you, B. But I can't be if you don't let me. — Kandi Steiner

One more weekend with Whiskey, and then I'd have to let him go.For good. — Kandi Steiner

There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less." Suddenly, — Kandi Steiner

And I remember it hurt that first time he touched me. Not because it was painful, but because it was everything but. It hurt from somewhere deep inside my gut that told me I would never get to have him, to keep him, or to feel the way I felt with his hands on me with anyone else for as long as I tried. Where — Kandi Steiner

What are you afraid of, Rhodes?" I asked softly, moving a little closer to him. He kept his back turned, his fingers still lightly on the photo, and for a moment I thought he might not answer. "Starving." He just barely whispered the word, but it was loud enough to knock every other thought from my mind. "I know what it feels like to be hungry. In many aspects." He turned to me then, his eyes slightly glossed over, like he wasn't quite there anymore. "Nothing scares me more than the possibility that I may never cure that hunger." I — Kandi Steiner

Uncomplicate it. Don't make excuses. Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one. — Kandi Steiner

Yeah, we're not perfect, neither of us, but I can't deny the electricity between us. There's something there that we aren't meant to understand. — Kandi Steiner

Sometimes it's harder than you think. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. Sometimes it's more complicated than just wanting something and making it happen. — Kandi Steiner

I will do everything I can to be the man that you want, the man that the seven-year-old you used to dream about. I will bring you flowers, I'll take care of you when you're sick, I'll give you space when you need it and I'll never leave your side when you want someone there. I want to be better than I am because of you, Paisley. — Kandi Steiner

Using the bathroom in a frat house is like hanging out the door of a speeding car. You're taking a risk. — Kandi Steiner

I am not sorry that i kissed you, I am only sorry that i kissed you when you were not mine to kiss! — Kandi Steiner

Douche. You are a fucking douche shovel. — Kandi Steiner

I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn't dilute him - not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him. — Kandi Steiner

You really are a pain in the ass," he laughs. I swat him playfully, laughing too as a single tear rolls down my cheek. He wipes it away and tucks my hair behind my ear, "But you're my pain in the ass. — Kandi Steiner

The truth is, there are some challenges we face in our lives that completely change us. — Kandi Steiner

It was then that I realized my life was my own. I could do anything, be anyone, if I only had the courage. — Kandi Steiner

Because that's what life's about. It's about paddling out and fighting the waves until you find the perfect one to ride home on. — Kandi Steiner