Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that. Melissa Bank More Quotes by Melissa Bank More Quotes From Melissa Bank I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief. Melissa Bank disbeliefreallove-is During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. Melissa Bank cancerdistanceinspirational It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment. Melissa Bank perfectly-naturaljudgmentdoubt The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later. Melissa Bank havens It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details. Melissa Bank scaresimplefeelings Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm. Melissa Bank gasolinedrinkingbeautiful In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father. Melissa Bank growing-upmotherfather 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. Melissa Bank dreamwantfeels I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried. Melissa Bank teethhatefeels Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive. Melissa Bank predatorniceanimal She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die. Melissa Bank saidfatherchildren It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone. Melissa Bank scarewonderway He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone. Melissa Bank proofmenfacts He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know. Melissa Bank kissingmeanthinking You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him. Melissa Bank shrinksfitlittles But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door. Melissa Bank eyedoorsrooms 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. Melissa Bank dangerouswonderfeels The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end. Melissa Bank growing-upgirlcouple You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do. Melissa Bank forgivinggoes-onwant 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. Melissa Bank i-realizedlostway
