Alexis Daria > Quotes

“Okay fine, you want a real answer? Look around.” Michelle waved her hands, encompassing their surroundings. “The men in this family get away with acting like a bunch of babies. They sit around eating and talking while the women do everything. The Latinx gender roles run deep. Is it any wonder our generation has made such sucky romantic choices? I don’t date.” She pointed at Ava. “She’s divorced. And you’re a serial monogamist.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“Sometimes the feeling of loss faded, more like a forgotten task nagging at his attention, or a misplaced item waiting to be found. But it never truly went away.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“Jasmine tried not to take it personally, but taking things personally was one of her greatest skills.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“Jasmine did trust easily, and look where it had gotten her. She could see now it was a direct response to feeling ignored and misunderstood by her parents and siblings. It was why she’d readily given her heart to every semi-attractive man who’d even shown her an ounce of attention. She sought her parents’ love by securing romantic relationships, because in her family, that was what made you a success. But that wasn’t healthy. And trust wasn’t meant to be given in one lump sum. It was earned, little by little.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“Gabe let out a low chuckle. It was such a Michelle thing to say. She’d always had an abundance of confidence. It was one of the things he used to adore—and even envy—about her.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“Years ago, Michelle had created the four-point Jasmine Scale to track Jasmine's progression--or descent, as Michelle called it--into love.

The first point on the scale was Attraction. It was the curiosity phase, where Jasmine started to wonder about the guy and noticed all the cute and charming things about him, usually while ignoring glaring flaws and red flags.

Next came the Crush. In the Crush phase, Jasmine amped up the flirting, getting physically closer and making it obvious that she was interested.

The third phase, Infatuation, was where she started to lose her sense of self and all good judgement. She made herself too available and did too many favors for the guy in question.

After that, there was only one more step left: Falling in Love, where she threw herself headfirst into the emotional abyss.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“Over her years in LA, working in television, she’d amassed a considerable wardrobe of beautiful outfits. They were her pride and joy. Some people had kids or pets. Natasha had style.”
― Alexis Daria, Dance with Me

“Except they’d never written the end. Just one more bit of unfinished business between them.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“Forcing her into the position of authority, making her act like his mother. She hated when he did this, and his immaturity had ultimately led to the downfall of their marriage.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“if the broom fits, ride it.”
― Alexis Daria, What the Hex

“It’s the moment when the girl in the teen rom-com abandons her glasses and ponytail and descends the stairs in all her prom-ready glory. It’s the moment when her high school crush finally sees her for the beautiful twenty-six-year-old actress that she is.”
― Alexis Daria, Only Santas in the Building

“Oh, no. Did he pass away?” I infuse my voice with an appropriate amount of horror and sympathy, but I mostly want to know whether he died in my apartment. “Nothing like that. He moved to Florida.” Mr. Barnes shudders. “A worse fate I cannot imagine.”
― Alexis Daria, Only Santas in the Building

“Why does it feel like this?"
He cupped her cheeks and peered into her eyes. "Like what?"
"Like I'm going to fall apart if you don't touch me?”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“I wouldn’t mind at all if he bit me. Not in a vampire way. In a sex way.”
― Alexis Daria, Only Santas in the Building

“Many years ago, he’d cut his parents out of his life to save himself. And while he was a firm believer in upholding healthy boundaries against toxic people, even if those people were related by blood, he could acknowledge that he’d also done it to hurt them.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“What she hadn’t expected was the simmering arousal. Like all of her cells prickled with awareness of him. Like he was a giant magnet pulling her inexorably toward him, and she was powerless to stop the attraction.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“Because you’re an Aries,” Michelle said matter-of-factly. “You love love.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“if he doesn’t like you at your worst, he doesn’t deserve you at your best.”
― Alexis Daria, Only Santas in the Building

“Gabe’s heart stopped. This was it, this was the moment he died. In the condom aisle of a CVS, at the age of thirty-one, because his father had told him to practice safe sex.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“She wanted to see him. To spend time with him. To find out if there was anything left to salvage . . . With a lump in her throat, she wrote in tiny, reluctant letters, “Friendship 2.0.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“I’ve talked to your mother,” Esteban went on. “We should’ve considered what you wanted, should’ve let you make more of your own choices, follow your own dreams. We realize now, there were other ways. But back then? We didn’t know. Lo siento, mijo.” This was it. The thing Gabe had wanted for as long as he could remember. Acknowledgment and apology from his father.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“Mich.' Gabe leaned against the kitchen counter. When she turned to look at him, he said, 'I'm sorry I yelled at you.'

She shrugged. 'I can handle yelling. You've met my family.'

'Doesn't matter. I try not to raise my voice or speak in anger, but I did that to you yesterday . And I'm sorry for it.'

Damn, how could anyone resist a man who delivered such a heartfelt apology?”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“I came out to my sister,” Gabe said. “My niece Lucy is transgender, so I wanted to make sure she knows someone else in the family is queer.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“Just tell me what you want, Valencia, and I’ll do it. I’ll do anything for you.”
― Alexis Daria, The Holiday Hookup List

“He hated calendar alerts—the damned things ruled his life these days—but he especially despised this one. New York was the last thing he wanted to think about, today or ever.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“You have to learn to sit with discomfort,” Ralph’s always telling me. “It won’t kill you.”
― Alexis Daria, The Holiday Hookup List

“That’s love. Standing by my side while I do hard things, being a safe space to share my thoughts and feelings, and enthusiastically participating in a silly, sexy Christmas list, just to make me happy.”
― Alexis Daria, The Holiday Hookup List

“Look, I’ve been told in the past that I need to use my words more. I’m still working on it, but believe me when I say you have no fucking idea how long I’ve wanted this.”
― Alexis Daria, Only Santas in the Building

“After Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the island, the federal government’s absolute failure to provide resources and aid and unwillingness to treat the people of Puerto Rico as the American citizens they were by right of birth had prompted Ashton to move his family to Miami for a time.”
― Alexis Daria, You Had Me at Hola

“His interactions with them hadn’t gone well since he was fourteen years old, marked by yelling and criticism. There was no reason for that to have changed.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós