Starcrossed Quotes

“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“She decided that if Lucas was gay then she was going to have to get a sex change operation. He would be so worth it.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“How do you know all this about me?" Helen sputtered. Claire sighed.
"After I pushed you off the roof..." she began.
"After you WHAT?" Lucas yelled.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“You've got the killer instincts of a houseplant.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“I don’t know why you’re fighting it, Len. One, he’s frigging gorgeous. Two, he’s so frigging gorgeous you need to count it twice. Three, he saw you fall down and left practice to see if you were okay. That’s, like, devotion.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“What the holy hand grenade was that?”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Get this. So he comes up to me at lunch, right? And he starts asking me all these questions about you. Like, how long have I known you, where are you from, did I ever meet your mom before she skipped town...'

'My mom? That's weird,' Helen interrupted.

'And I start answering him with my usual flair for clever repartee,' Claire said, a bit too innocently.

'Translation: you insulted him.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“You and I are way to fabulous to be ordinary.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Never say never,” he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. “The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“So what are you doing next Friday night?"
"What have you got in mind?"
"We could try hitting each other with cars," she suggested cheerfully.
"Did that last weekend with Jase," he said with mock regret.
"Go to the zoo and throw ourselves to the lions?" she fired back quickly, desperate to keep him focused on her rather than his caved-in chest.
"The Romans sort of wore that one out. Got anything original?"
"I'll think of something," she warned him.
"Can't wait!”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“And I don't just WANT you, Helen. I LOVE you. Big difference.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Is that how tall you are without those ridiculous shoes?' he said derisively. I think I was born bigger than that.'

'I bet you were. Five feet of fat head and two inches of a**,' Claire muttered, standing up.

'Claire!' Helen blurted out, shocked. Lucas's shoulders were shaking with laughter. Jason pretended to take the joke OK, but Helen suspected his feelings were hurt.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“He's not going around telling everyone you're monkey-butt crazy, so at least you brutalized a seriously sweet guy.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“You certainly do heal fast. But you'll still have some impressive bruises, so if I were you I'd avoid your father for the rest of the night."
"I'll just tell him you abuse me," Helen said with a shrug. She jumped off the examining table.
"And I'll tell him you like it," he teased back.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison."

"What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed. "Why would you go to prison?"

"For killing the guy that took your virginity," he replied. "You I would forgive. But the guy? Dead man.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Do you have any idea how late it is? Go to sleep," she scolded as she hurried past him.

"I know, I'm going to bed right now ... Hey! YOU go to sleep," Jerry scolded back, belatedly remembering that he was the parent.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“I was a little worried she might try to drag me off to hell and drain my essence at some point, but I figured that was still better than having Gretchen for a best friend.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“They dragged the air mattress up to the widow's walk and eventually figured out how it was supposed to inflate, but Lucas had to read the instructions in Spanish because the English ones were nearly incomprehensible. Hilariously so.

"Insert mouth to the purpose inflation," Helen whispered.

...

"Expel lung into inflator tube," Lucas whispered back. "That sounds like it would hurt.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Helen felt as if the whole world had turned into some gigantic punch line that she had waited patiently for, and then when she heard it she found it insulting. If she had been in a comedy club she would have gotten up and walked out, but instead she had to go to the comedian's house after school and let his cousin beat the crap out of her.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Yeah, but damn!" Kate said, fanning herself with her hand. "When I was your age all of the guys were trying to prove how anti-establishment they were by out-uglying each other. I so got robbed!”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“What are you doing?'Helen put her hand over his to stop him from shifting.

'I'm going inside to talk to your dad. I don't want him to feel like he can't trust me with his daughter.'

'Lucas, I swear to whatever god you think is holy that I will get out of this car and walk to school if you go inside and talk to my dad.'

Lucas smiled and shifted back into first, driving away from her house. 'Who told you the gods were holy?”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“[...]Since then it’s been passed from mother to daughter, along with The Face.”
“The Face?” Lucas asked.
“That Launched a Thousand Ships,” Daphne said, repeating the title automatically. “It’s our curse.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on his elbows and watched his father-god brighten the bare wooden planks of her widow's walk.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Helen's modest. She wanted to dress herself," Ariadne said, drizzling honey over a bowl of oatmeal and putting it down in front of Helen.
"Modest? Sure she is," Hector said sarcastically as he passed Lucas the bacon.
"That was YOUR SISTER'S nightgown, wasn't it?" Lucas asked without skipping a beat as he served Helen and himself.
Hector wisely shut his mouth.
"Yeah," Ariadne replied for him, not getting it. "So comfortable! What? What are you all laughing at?”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Made dinner," Helen told him in a flat voice.

"Did I do something wrong?" he asked tentatively.

"Of course not. Why would you ask that when I just cooked you dinner?"

"Because usually when a woman spends hours cooking a complicated meal and then just sits at the table with a pissed off look on her face, that means some guy somewhere did something really stupid," he said, still on edge.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed