Quotes

Farouk: I need a drink, an alcoholic drink.

I'm trying to find an angle where I don't have to tell him, but I still get to have him. And especially a solution where I don't have to take any responsibility for it all going wrong if he rejects me."

But, alas! husbands, as well as their helpmates, are often only overgrown children; nay, thanks to early debauchery, scarcely men in their outward form—and if the blind lead the blind, one need not come from heaven to tell us the consequence.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

“Men don’t have rights.”

Just like no means no, it’s always the man’s fault. Always. Now, you remember that.

“This is heavy. What have you got in here?”

Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn’t bear fruit like you’d hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liars.

Listen up: just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn’t mean you have to, especially when they won’t even appreciate you for doing it.

I want to find common ground with you but I can’t, because you are wrong.

Trust me. I’m doing her a solid. In my romance novels, this always works. Everything you read in books is at least half-true.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close.

“Olive,” Dr Aslan interrupted her with a stern tone. “What do I always tell you?”

Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.

He’s starting to see some flaws in his logic. Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves they’re straight.

“You’re not average looking!” May said. “Because I look just like you and I’m pretty!”