Quotes from book

This Is How You Lose Her

“You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.”

“You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day.

At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.”

“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”

“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”

“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

“I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.”

“Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.”

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”

“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”

“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.

This is how you lose her.”