The Idea of You Quotes

“He looked to me then. Piercing blue-green eyes and a mass of dark curls. He couldn’t have been more than nineteen.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“ganbatte,” which Hayes and Rory had taken a particular liking to, and which, I learned, translated to the sentiment of “do your best, try hard, good luck.” An encouraging greeting, if ever there was one.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Je t’adore avec tout mon cœur.” But telling”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“She's been listening to Taylor Swift's new album on repeat and saying that she finally understands her pain”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Love is this very precious thing. It's this precious, magical thing. But it's not finite. There's not a limited amount of it out there. You just have to be open to allowing it to find you. Allowing it to happen.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“C’est ça, l’amour, Solène. Ce n’est pas toujours parfait. Ni jamais exactement comme tu le souhaites. Mais, quand ça te tombe dessus, ça ne se contrôle pas.” Love, she said, was not always perfect, and not exactly how you expected it to be. But when it descended upon you, there was no controlling it.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I took a sip of champagne then. Game on.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I turned forty. And the world did not end.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Love is this very precious thing, Izz. It’s this precious, magical thing. But it’s not finite. There’s not a limited amount of it out there. You just have to be open to allowing it to find you. Allowing it to happen.” I was not entirely sure that I believed this, but I needed her to. “And for a long time I closed myself off to it, because it was easier and safe … But I wasn’t necessarily happy.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Do you want to talk about it?” I asked, at least once a day. “No,” she said each time, slipping into her room. “I’m okay.” And then the door would close and the Taylor Swift would begin. We were not yet out of the woods.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I did not feel as if I were sharing him with his twenty-two million Twitter followers. Here, tonight, in this space, he was mine. He’d made that clear.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“What I am always hoping to find,” he said, stroking his once-roguish beard. “Someone who goes against the grain. Who doesn’t seem to care what everyone else thinks.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“He thinks you are beautiful and he thinks you are smart,” he’d surmised about Daniel, that first weekend I’d brought him to Boston, when we had been dating for seven months. “But he has no real appreciation for what you are passionate about, who you are on the inside.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“C’est vachement triste, et ça va continuer à se dégrader, c’est sûr. Si personne ne fait rien, ne dit rien … On va attendre jusqu’à quand? Comme la fois précédente? Non, pas question!”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“My identity is different because the world responds to my physical appearance differently. And their response inadvertently changes how I see myself. And that’s kind of … crazy.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“But it’s definitely harder for women. And I think even more so for beautiful women. Because if so much of your identity and your value is tied up in your looks and how the world responds to your physical appearance, what do you do when that changes? How do you see yourself then? Who do you become?”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Hayes will do.” “Hayes will do what?” I laughed. “I kid. I’m sorry. It’s been a long day.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Because asleep, he could not see me cry.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“C’est ça, l’amour, Solène. Ce n’est pas toujours parfait. Ni jamais exactement comme tu le souhaites. Mais, quand ça te tombe dessus, ça ne se contrôle pas.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“people talk. And much of what they say is not true. So we just ignore it, okay? I don’t care what they say, because I know who I am. You know who I am. And we don’t let them define who we are for us.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“There is this moment that every woman knows, when she reaches into her date’s pants for the first time and is not sure what’s going to come out. And she says a little prayer to the penis gods and hopes that she will be pleasantly surprised.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Mais, quand ça te tombe dessus, ça ne se contrôle pas.” Love, she said, was not always perfect, and not exactly how you expected it to be. But when it descended upon you, there was no controlling it.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Charlotte, you know me. Models are like toffee. They often seem like a great idea, especially on holiday. But once you get them in your mouth, you remember that they’re cloyingly sweet and they stick to your teeth. Plus they’ve no nutritional value whatsoever … But they’re certainly very pretty in the window.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“The best part,” Hayes said, leaning into me, after we were seated and given our menus, “was that you had all these adorable little rules that were completely arbitrary.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I am entirely too old for you, Hayes.” “I don’t think you truly believe that. I mean, do you like me? Do you not have fun when we’re together? Do you feel like I have a problem following the conversation?” “No.” “Then I don’t think you really believe that. If you did, you wouldn’t be here. I think you care what other people might be thinking, or saying, and that’s what’s fucking you up.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“She’s been listening to Taylor Swift’s new album on repeat and saying that she finally understands her pain,” he continued. “I don’t even know what that means…”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Love is this very precious thing, Izz. It’s this precious, magical thing. But it’s not finite. There’s not a limited amount of it out there. You just have to be open to allowing it to find you. Allowing it to happen”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I laughed. “I was just making sure it was you, and not the idea of you.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“Love is this very precious thing... It's this precious, magical thing. But it's not finite. There's not a limited amount of it out there. You just have to be open to allowing it to find you.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“I don’t want to be put in a box. I want to do things that feed me. I want to surround myself with art and fascinating people and stimulating experiences … and beauty. I want to surprise myself.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You