Steph Campbell Quotes & Sayings

Ani l'dodi, ve dodi li. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. — Steph Campbell

So, what, Trevor was the quid and Shayna was the pro quo? I don't think so, Syd. Playing games is not my style. — Steph Campbell

It's totally okay to fuck up. More than okay. It's normal. Our fuck-ups make us who we are, and if we don't accept that ... well, there'd be nothing but more potential fuck-ups in our future. Or, worse, we'd just freeze up and stop doing anything at all. — Steph Campbell

The problem with passion is it goes both ways. Love/Hate. The line between those two is a lot thinner than I thought. — Steph Campbell

If this ever goes anywhere, it will be because it's right: right time, right intentions, right everything. — Steph Campbell

Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do. — Steph Campbell

When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same. — Steph Campbell

I think you are who you are. There is no waiting. There's no pausing any of this. And if you feel like you're on a break or whatever, okay. But you better get back to it. Life goes fast, and who wants to sit any of it out? — Steph Campbell

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

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. — Steph Campbell

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. — Steph Campbell

You deserve someone you're proud of. Someone who loves you the way you deserve to be loved. Don't ever stick around with anyone who puts you on the backburner, okay? — Steph Campbell

Beautiful things never last. — Steph Campbell

The night we met, we started off with coffee and politics, but it was one of those nights where you just can't stop talking. Where you're finishing each other's sentences, and it's like you've just met.. but also like you've known each other forever. Where you find yourself telling secrets that you've never told anyone else before in your life. — Steph Campbell

We all die, sweetheart. You've just got to live your life with enough meaning while you're still here to make it all worthwhile. — Steph Campbell

A one night stand with the perfect girl is like ... it's like getting to the airport in Hawaii, then getting right back on the plane and flying home. It's depressing to have been that close to paradise without actually getting there. — Steph Campbell

Life is too short to waste on bullshit. — Steph Campbell

I don't sleep with broken-hearted guys. It's too pathetic. — Steph Campbell

I'm reading some book about a girl trapped in a love triangle between two supernatural beings, and wishing that that was my biggest problem. ~ Grounding Quinn — Steph Campbell

Isn't 'I need space' the universal couples equivalent of 'I need you to pack your shit and get out of my life'? — Steph Campbell

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. — Steph Campbell

What you and I had was the most intense thing I've ever felt, but if it's over for you, just kick me hard enough so I'll remember the pain and stay out of your way. — Steph Campbell

I try to smile at her, but I can't extend my flexibility training to my mouth, it just won't move. — Steph Campbell

Letting go is never easy. Especially when you can't see where you're going to land. But I've learned that sometimes, you just have to throw your weight behind the change. Take the chance that you may fall. — Steph Campbell

Do I wish you would've left him a long time ago? Hell yeah. But there's something to be said for someone brave enough to take on that kind of darkness alone. — Steph Campbell

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 — Steph Campbell

Have you ever had a date so bad, it makes you contemplate a lobotomy? — Steph Campbell

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. — Steph Campbell

But if you're asking what I think you are, I don't think relationships should be like our wrestling matches. Relationships are supposed to make you happy, and bring something good to your life. When that stops, for me at least, then it's time to think about moving on. It's just my opinion, of course, but I think you should get out while you still have some peace of mind. Why stick around until you're yelling mercy, you know?
Campbell, Steph (2012-07-16). Delicate (Risk the Fall) (Kindle Locations 1794-1797). Kindle Edition. — Steph Campbell

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. — Steph Campbell

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. — Steph Campbell

Screw the daring tough guy image, what happened with us broke me. — Steph Campbell

Being loved sounds good in the movies, in books, in the memories of people who've survived the rough beginnings of their love. In real life, in the very beginning? It's every deep fear you've ever wanted to avoid all wrapped in the most intense happiness and pleasure you've ever dreamed possible. — Steph Campbell

It's like he took the words right out of the deepest, most secretive part of my heart, the tiny room that's always locked up with the key swallowed for good measure. — Steph Campbell

Yes. I'm going to sink into what I feel for you. I'm going to sink into the good times and the scary shit. I'm going to sink with you, because I'm tired of drifting and treading, never committing to anything. I want to sink with you. — Steph Campbell

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.-pg 16 — Steph Campbell

I inhale, and the two best smells in my world get trapped in my lungs: the salty, cool sting of the ocean in the morning and sweet, morning-sweaty smell of Whit. — Steph Campbell

My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose. — Steph Campbell

Trust is a tricky thing. It can bite you hard when you least expect it to. — Steph Campbell

I loved Trevor wholly. In all the good ways that made me feel alive and special and important. But also, in the bad ways. The ways that shut me off from others and left me alone with my pain. The ways that had me keep secrets. I loved Trevor in all the ways that I thought mattered, even though I knew that I didn't. — Steph Campbell

It's time to take a deep breath and sink into the love and goodness that scares the ever-living hell out of me. I have to make my life count for something, or I'll be treading through this pain like a coward until I drop. — Steph Campbell