Top 35 Rosie Danan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Art belongs to the audience, not the artist.”

— Rosie Danan

2. “I always thought love was supposed to make you itchy. A crawling-out-of-your-skin kind of obsession. I thought love was synonymous with pining and longing. That it had to hurt.”

— Rosie Danan

3. “She looked like the first meteor shower he’d ever seen – impossible and brilliant, so far away but somehow also right inside his chest.”

— Rosie Danan

4. “Josh could hardly spend more than fifteen minutes with her without wanting to eat her out until he sprained his jaw.”

— Rosie Danan

5. “What I’m trying to articulate, probably a little poorly, is that you’re precious,” Ethan said, “not in spite of, but because of all the ways you believe you’re broken.”

— Rosie Danan

6. “Isn’t that what all of us want deep down? Someone to hold us at the end of the line?”

— Rosie Danan

7. “One of the best things about love, real love, is that it doesn’t demand perfection. It simply invites us to live up to our potential.”

— Rosie Danan

8. “Loving you is like sinking into a warm bath after a lifetime of feeling cold down to my bones.”

— Rosie Danan

9. “In your rush to protect yourself from heartache, you’re always the first to jump to conclusions.”

— Rosie Danan

10. “Instead, sitting across from him required her to flirt with her own softness.”

— Rosie Danan

11. “Remember, each new day is another chance to heal your sorry, broken heart.”

— Rosie Danan

12. “It was strange to want something for so long, to turn it over so many times in your mind, that the image became as faded and worn as an old Polaroid. To become so consumed by the yearning in your heart that when you got what you’d always longed for, you could hardly recognize it.”

— Rosie Danan

13. “Some fears kill us. They drain us our whole lives, and we die filled with regret. But this isn’t one of those fears. Make a plan.”

— Rosie Danan

14. “And you seem like the kind of girl who would take notes.”

— Rosie Danan

15. “But I’m not sure she’d even know how to play it if life gave her a hand she actually wanted.”

— Rosie Danan

16. “Acknowledging your pain doesn’t take away from anyone else’s.”

— Rosie Danan

17. “I think I could be good at loving you,′ he said, ’if you let me.”

— Rosie Danan

18. “He smelled like summer, like more daylight and going outside to lie in the grass.”

— Rosie Danan

19. “You coming?” “I mean, I’m gonna try not to,” Josh muttered.”

— Rosie Danan

20. “Change always comes with a closing cost. But it’s still worth trying. Not because the odds are particularly good, mind you, but considering the alternative. There’s value in the struggle. Value in touching the raw and bloody parts of our souls, opening them up to the sunlight, and hoping they heal.”

— Rosie Danan

21. “It didn’t matter how many reasons she could list why Everett should love her. He didn’t. Not in the way she’d always wanted. And until she stopped waiting for a love she felt she was due, she’d never be able to imagine the future with anyone else.”

— Rosie Danan

22. “It was like his heartbeat was everywhere at once.”

— Rosie Danan

23. “If they weren’t both barely breathing, he’d tell her how looking at her was sometimes so good that it hurt.”

— Rosie Danan

24. “Unfortunately, like grain alcohol, unrequited love grows more potent with time.”

— Rosie Danan

25. “Looking at him made her feel lucky. Made her want to paint, despite having never painted a day in her life. It felt like the least she could do. To capture this moment somehow, so that other people could know half the pleasure of it.”

— Rosie Danan

26. “No one ever died from an overdose of desire.”

— Rosie Danan

27. “For the first time in his life, he felt like he understood why dogs howled at the moon.”

— Rosie Danan

28. “I’d like to find someone who’s strong where I’m weak.”

— Rosie Danan

29. “His molecules had rearranged to give him this shot at loving her.”

— Rosie Danan

30. “Every body is different, but none of them are wrong.”

— Rosie Danan

31. “He’d thought about her so much since she’d left, it didn’t even feel like thinking anymore.”

— Rosie Danan

32. “Sometimes we think we want something until it’s time to live with the consequences.”

— Rosie Danan

33. “Were men allowed to be so lovely?”

— Rosie Danan

34. “He made her tender. Which was... not a word that anyone had ever used to describe her. Tender like petals pressed between pages of a book. Tender like a release of poison from her bloodstream. Tender, a cousin to weak, but with a quiet power she couldn’t deny.”

— Rosie Danan

35. “You wanna be right more than you wanna be happy.”

— Rosie Danan