Quotes from book

Why We Broke Up

“If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.”

“This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.”

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”

“I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”

“… everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.”

“Undeveloped, the whole thing, tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.”

“I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.”

“… that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together”

“I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

“But it’s December now, and the sky is bright, and it’s clear to me. I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed. I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

“Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.”

“The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.”

“Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.”

“I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.”