Angela N. Blount Quotes

“I didn't just love him ... I needed him. Not in some desperate "you complete me" sort of way. No, Vincent didn't make me whole. He improved me. Something about him-something I didn't understand-had a way of amplifying the good in my nature while muting the bad. He was a catalyst for my soul. I didn't need him in order to exist ... I needed him in order to be a better me.”

— 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

“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

“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

“Then, by your definition ... I'm in love with you.”

— Angela N. Blount

“I know you can take care of yourself," he said, with absolute certainty. His vivid eyes probed hers. With the same underlying resolve, he lifted a hand and brushed her cheek with his fingertips. "I just don't think ... you shouldn't have to.”

— Angela N. Blount

“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

You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.

— Angela N. Blount

The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by 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

“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

“Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.”

— Angela N. Blount

“As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.”

— 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