Quotes from book

Why We Broke Up

“when I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.”

“… the moron who thought love was forever.”

“You either have the feeling or you don’t.”

“Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.”

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

“It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.”

“But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.”

“… there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.”

“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”

“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

“Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.”

“Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.”

“And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.”

“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”

“I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.”

“Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.”

“Most people would say that she's beautiful.
-That's because she's been with most people.”

“Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

“Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?”