Angela N. Blount Quotes

Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don't really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally... I suppose it's passion combined with the commitment to value someone else completely above oneself.
Angela N. Blount
Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.
Angela N. Blount
The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.
Angela N. Blount
I didn't actually know what regret tasted like—but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.
Angela N. Blount
I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s grown on her and she actually really likes him. Technically, I’m not supposed to find that appealing. But maybe real life is a lot more cliché than anyone wants to admit. Or maybe there’s just a fine, subjective line between the cliché and the poetic.
Angela N. Blount
You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.
Angela N. Blount
Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.
Angela N. Blount
His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.
Angela N. Blount
At least you earned your belief in something...Most people around here just say they believe whatever their family believes. They don't bother thinking for themselves...And the less they know, the louder they believe it.
Angela N. Blount
Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t trade this path I’m on for the whole solar system, for that matter. If I’ve learned anything these last several months, it’s that sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.
Angela N. Blount
Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.
Angela N. Blount
Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.
Angela N. Blount
Don't expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.
Angela N. Blount
Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.
Angela N. Blount