Melissa Bank Quotes

You don't need a reason to forgive ... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Well, for one thing," she said, "her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark.

I realized I was waiting for his permission to leave

It's all about judging," I said. "I'm not sure I'm the judge type. I might be more of the criminal type."
"Judgement is power," he said.

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.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

You smell like a bar," he said.
I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem.

In a cab home from a jazz club, he said, "You act like I just want to sleep with you." He said, "I want to everything with you.

I have acute pancreatitis."
"I thought it was just average looking.

Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

Oliver Biddle was who you became if you couldn't find anyone to love except your parents.

He wants me to boss you around."
"We'll pick up a pair of stilettos on the way home," he said.
I said, "I need to go back to Philiadelphia.

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

When I sit down to write, 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.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself.
You imagine him being attracted to them.
You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Even now, remembering the sound of his voice chastens every word I say.

You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol of the ladies room door.

I said, "It's not like that." I wanted to convince her. I said "We think alike."
Oh, my dear," she said. "A man thinks with his dick.

When I could talk, I said, "I don't know what I did wrong."
Dena sighed, "You care too much.

You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.

You try to plan your life, but that's not how it works.

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

Today was the first day of the rest of my life. It was okay, I think the second day of the rest of my life will be better

We are all children until our fathers die.

It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

You realize that if he doesn't know who you are, he won't be able to remember who you were.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

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 said, "Is my father dying?"
He looked at me steadily. "We're all dying, Jane.

Jack knew how to make women fall in love with him, but that didn't exactly qualify him as a guidance counselor.

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it's this way for everyone.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

He said, People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

You act like I just want to sleep with you ...
I want to EVERYTHING with you.

I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

Unfortunately, we all had to face that I was not the person they wanted me to be.

Happiness is a dog sunning itself on a rock. We were not put on this Earth to be happy. We were put here to experience great things.

She looked like someone who was used to having other people wait on her. I wonder what that's like, to never have to worry about filling the silence.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Sometimes you're loved because of your weaknesses. What you can't do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

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 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.

He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin
it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

Bored .... nearly to death

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

Good'?" my aunt said. "Children are good. Dogs are good. This is theater, Jane.

When you're out" She advised, "try to appear captivated.

He didn't remember because he'd seen thousands of little fish hundreds of times, and because it didn't mean to him what it had to me.

Even a perfect understanding of failed love is the booby prize.

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.

We change into our bathing suits, both of us pale like larvae, and then we walk down to the water.

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.