Daria Snadowsky > Quotes

“Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving
you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have
otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.
Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and
hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me
deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you’re always going to haunt me.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy. Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you’re always going to haunt me.
I’ll never be able to have another birthday without wondering how you’re celebrating yours. I’ll never be able to think another guy is more handsome, talented, intelligent, or worth loving than you, despite all your faults (and there are many). I’ll never be able to check my e-mail without praying I’ll find a message from you with the subject line I love you, Dom—please come back to me. Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together, and I’ll never be able to leave the house without hoping and dreading that I’ll run into you. You stole Fort Myers from me, and I lived here first, you fucking thief. You actually may be one of my last thoughts when I die.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“It’s like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don’t like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I might come across as desperate for affection or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they’re both.
Maybe it’s a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“I’ve been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect “forever” that I’m completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“I do. I still love him so much. And I feel so worthless because he doesn’t love me anymore.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“After a breakup there’s a momentary relief that you’re free again. But that’s quickly eclipsed by all the good memories you had together and the realization that there won’t be any more of them.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Pain was my tie to a past that a part of me wanted to hold on to. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so masochistic."-Dom”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“It’s so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn’t guarantee we’ll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Why did I have to love him so much if we’re not going to end up together?”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

“How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what’s going on?”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“High school sweetheart" is such an
innocuous-sounding term for something that can tear out your guts.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Love is . . . needing to be with this one person. No—it’s more like wanting to need to be with this one person. Last semester my English professor read us this great Robert Frost quotation that went something like, ‘Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control, and the sensation of your heart bursting in your throat. The distinction is that the ex is alive.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“I remember another thing Cosmo said. It typically takes half the time you’re dating a guy to fall out of love with him. My ex and I were together almost ten months before he admitted over the holidays that he’d fallen out of love with me, so by that measure I should’ve been cured weeks ago. But once you’ve anticipated spending forever with someone, I’m not convinced you can ever feel complete after being uncoupled. I think you just learn to live without the person. Like when someone dies, you don’t stop loving them just because they’re not around to love you back anymore. Breakups truly are a kind of death.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“If love and hate aren’t true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“I think how breakups can bring out the worst in the best people, and part of being upset is mouthing off crap you don’t mean.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“There’s something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Amy is so correct that a good personality can make a guy better-looking.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Blame your body. The whole biological purpose of existence is to mate, so from the time we hit puberty, our hormones are demanding us to couple up. Maybe it’s basic instinct to feel inadequate if you’re single."

"That’s what sucks. There’s so many more interesting things than guys, but guys are what we spend most of our time talking about."

"I think that’s just the way it is, though. No matter what we do, it’s always more special if there’s a boyfriend to share it with."

"Or a best friend.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you’re undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“In the beginning, I wanted his heart. Then I shifted focus to his body. I was never interested in only friendship.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we’d be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl

“In the same way that a fiancée is a bride-to-be, I’ve always thought a girlfriend is a fiancée-to-be. Yes, most relationships bite the dust before things get long-term. However, that possibility of staying together forever remains the underlying force driving the relationship forward.”
― Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl