Melissa Bank Quotes
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It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.
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You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.
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But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.
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The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
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I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
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He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.
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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.
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It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.
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You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
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She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.
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He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
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She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.
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He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
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Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
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You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.
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You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
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It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.
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Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better 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.
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You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
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You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
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The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
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I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.
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I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
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i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.
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