Gaby Dunn > Quotes

“Maybe there’s a universe out there — happening now — where we end up together.
Maybe there’s a universe where I’m the right person for you. Where I adore every nice thing you did for me without starting to resent you. A universe where you actually end up with someone who appreciates you. Where no one becomes a doormat. Where both of us can shed our baggage and curiosity and issues.

If you think of it all this way, then it’s like neither of us did anything wrong.

You just found me in the wrong universe. That’s all.

Because you could have loved me forever. And maybe in another universe, I let you.”
― Gaby Dunn

“I want to forget everything you told me. I want to wash away how uncertain you made me. How scared I was of losing you. How I lost you anyway. I don’t want to know how your hands feel or what makes you smile. I don’t want to see you in photos, familiar like a dream I had once or a book I never finished.”
― Gaby Dunn

“There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.”
― Gaby Dunn, Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1

“You're not boring. You're guarded and unusual and a little bit unbalanced, but you're not boring. I'm not BFF with boring people. It would ruin my highly crafted Tumblr brand.”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“I don't subscribe to labels. Unless I'm labeling other people.”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“If anything, I got angry that morning because I was embarrassed. It's hard enough living with my own questionable decisions without some pillar of morality reflecting back at me. (You're the pillar, if that was not clear. And you're quite shiny.)”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“Do you know he has met Putin? Do you think anyone has really met Putin? Is he the kind of guy you can really know?”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“Thank you for being the bigger person, as always. We will have you to thank when both of our coffins are lowered into the ground at the exact same time in 2083.”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“Where we start off can’t be helped. What can be helped is how we feel about it and how we address it.”
― Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

“I want to be a hero, Ava. Or really rich. I think it's easy to make yourself a hero when you can pay for it.

I know you fantasize about accepting your Oscar and thanking your parents after falling on the steps to the podium, but I fantasize about meeting a source in a parking garage and putting my entire family at risk.

I WANT TO BE GREAT, AVA! I WANT TO WRITE THINGS THAT CHANGE THE WIORLD AND WALK INTO ROOMS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO FEAR ME!”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“Ava: Do you think I'm really that bad? That she had to friend break up with me?

Gen: No way. Are you having a tough time? Yes. But that's when you step up and be a BETTER friend. No STOP being friends.”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“We're still in the same room, you weirdo.

Stop crying.

G
(the blonde who is really uncomfortable with large displays of emotion)”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“He often tells me “the Universe will provide.” But in all my years of life thus far, the Universe has yet to sign any of my checks.”
― Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

“The joke wasn't about Voltaire. It was about Camus.”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“I don't want to be black and white, but I do want to be better. To you, But I need you to be better to me too.

Gen

P.S. Wow. That was the gayest thing I have ever written.”
― Gaby Dunn, I Hate Everyone But You

“...When you label that stuff that used to be basic as "entitlement," then you're allowing yourself to be treated poorly. Is being able to buy food "entitlement"? Is seeing a doctor when you're sick "entitlement"? Aren't we all entitled to these things? Why do we need to EARN our humanity in a country founded on the idea that we have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? By shrugging off these requests as "entitlement," you're suggesting we don't have a right to life-sustaining resources.”
― Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

“There is nothing embarrassing about not getting what you want. I think it’s more embarrassing to not want anything in the first place.”
― Gaby Dunn, Please Send Help

“This narrative is an extension of the “prosperity gospel,” which posits that if you are truly a good, smart, and worthy person, you will magically prosper. Even people who know this isn’t true have largely internalized the message.”
― Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

“We can’t let it tear us apart.”
― Gaby Dunn, Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together