Melissa Bank Quotes

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.

It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.

You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

No," he said, and he snapped his fingers. "You'll come work for me at K----. And be a real associate editor."I said, "I could bring you up on charges for that.""What?""Work harassment in the sexual place.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.