Melissa Bank Quotes
Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.
It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.
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.
I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.
She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.
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.
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
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.
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.
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
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.
It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.
I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
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.
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.
I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.
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.
There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.
They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.
Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.