The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo Quote Rp Meme
by Taylor Jenkins Reid- feel free to edit or change pronouns- part one
‘“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
“I love you too much to let you live only for me.”
“It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now.”
“And here’s why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased.”
“The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
“I can’t speak for all people who have been hit by someone they love, but what I can tell you is that forgiveness is different from absolution.”
“I guess what I’m saying is it’s not all luck. It’s luck and being a son of a bitch.”
“People don’t find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first. Nor do people respect a man who can’t keep his wife in line.”
“Twice now in our lives. I have spent years getting over you.”
“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between.
who was the love of your life? You can tell me.“
“I can survive it. I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”
"It’s ok, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
So I fell down.”
“Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even.”
“forgiveness is different from absolution.”
“No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”
“You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.”
“It shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?”
“It’s not wrong, sweetheart. It’s not, they’re wrong.”
“Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?”
“If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically.”
“How someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
“I’m bisexual. Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”
“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
“I was gorgeous, even at fourteen. Oh, I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that. I turned heads.”
“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
“Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”
“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”
“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that.”
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,”
“Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
“I simply didn’t care. It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”
“I was fishing for information that might break my heart. A flaw of the human condition.”
“But accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking that it is just.”
“My heart was never in the craft of acting, only in the proving. Proving my power, proving my worth, proving my talent.”
“Being wanted meant having to satisfy.”
“It strikes me as a unique form of power to say your own name when you know that everyone in the room, everyone in the world, already knows it.”
“Two men sleeping together. Married to two women sleeping together. We were four beards.”
“I’ve never thought of myself as a force to be reckoned with. Maybe I should start thinking of myself that way; maybe I deserve to.”
“charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.”
“It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”
“If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,“
“When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone’s love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.”
“That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem,”
“Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”
And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don’t chip your tooth.”
“What’s that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there’s a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.
“The daily peace of loving plainly.”
“Do you think I’m a whore?
“Isn’t it awfully convenient,“that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that’s the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.”
“And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”
“You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”
“You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”
“Be wary of men with something to prove.”
“When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.”
“I simply didn’t care. It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”
“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.”
"Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.”
“you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”
. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.”
“I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life….I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you. To find you and touch your skin and smell your breath and hear all your thoughts. But I don’t want to be meant for someone like you.”
“It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
“I think being yourself—your true, entire self—is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”
“But if the last few years with you have been any indication, I think it also feels like taking your bra off at the end of the day.”
And anyways, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”
“I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life….I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you. To find you and touch your skin and smell your breath and hear all your thoughts. But I don’t want to be meant for someone like you”.”
“I made it fifty-fifty. Which is the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
“People have so closely followed the most intricate details of the fake story of my life.”
“Why should my low tolerance be your problem?“
"I want everything about you to be my problem,”
“That is the fastest way to ruin a woman’s reputation, after all—to imply that she has not adequately threaded the needle that is being sexually satisfying without ever appearing to desire sexual satisfaction.”
“I’d told him I was someone else, and then I started getting angry that he couldn’t see who I really was.”
“The devastating luxury of panic overtook me.And it has never left.”
“You’re not really famous if anyone still likes you.”
“You wonder what it must be to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
t charming girls should take pity on the pretty ones. I’m just saying it’s not so great being loved for something you didn’t do.”
“I can’t rest until I’m done. I have to push her. I have to ask and be willing to be told no. I have to know my worth.”
“I had learned all too well that pain was sometimes stronger than the need to keep up appearances.”
“I can’t rest until I’m done. I have to push her. I have to ask and be willing to be told no. I have to know my worth.”
“Me, I’ve always gone after what I wanted with everything in me. Others fall into happiness. Sometimes I wish I was like them. I’m sure sometimes they wish they were like me.”
“If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,”
“You know the key to impulsivity is believing you are invincible. No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”
“First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it. You tried. You were told no. Get over it.”
“I think the word whore is something ignorant people throw around when they have nothing else.”
“Even more gorgeous than I imagined.”
“It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”
“I miss my dad. I miss him all the time. But it’s moments like this, when I’m on the precipice of finally doing work that might just expand my heart, that I wish I could at least send him a letter, telling him what I’m doing. And I wish that he could send me one back.”
“I’m simply saying they were all too happy to believe the lie I was selling them. And of course, that’s the easiest lie to tell, one you know the other person desperately wants to be true.”
“I think being yourself—your true, entire self—is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”
“You can decide that wealth and renown are worthless when you have them.”
“I feel no pressure to stop crying. I feel no need to explain myself. You don’t have to make yourself okay for a good mother. A good mother makes herself okay for you.”
“I liked the idea of showing a woman having sex because she wanted to be pleased instead of being desperate to please.”
“No one is all good or all bad. I know this, of course. I had to learn it at a young age. But sometimes it’s easy to forget just how true it is. That it applies to everyone.”
“I have been married seven times, and never once has it felt half as right as this. I think that loving you has been the truest thing about me
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