Brittany Lemoine > Brittany's Quotes

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.”
― Bill Maher

“Yes, I have patterns of love addiction.
But I'm a woman.
Of course I do.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“I liked it. I craved it. I wanted more and I took it. I took it like I needed it, like my life had a limit and if I didn't get as much of it as I could, I'd quit breathing the next instant.”
― Kristen Ashley, Until the Sun Falls from the Sky

“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“You’re not a pit stop. You’re my finish line. There’s no one after you.”
― Krista Ritchie, Kiss the Sky

“Tell this guy to eat a hundred-calorie pack of dicks.”
― Jenny Mollen, I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“Something about having been with the same man made me feel especially close to her-like she and I had a shorthand that only people who'd had the same penis inside them could understand.”
― Jenny Mollen, I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“women, all of whom come in two types: those who are totally batshit crazy, and those who are liars.”
― Jenny Mollen, I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.”
― Dandi Daley Mackall, My Boyfriends' Dogs

“Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.”
― Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading

“People say you can’t describe love, but I have this theory that you can. It’s just subjective. Do you want to know what love feels like for me?

It’s breathing and suffocating. Sobbing and smiling. Yearning and fading. To ache that much harder. To live that much larger. It’s every moment. Every single, tiny one.

I’ve felt it all with Ryke.

And it’s not solely the wild, crazed events that keep my heart pumping. It’s these small, most inconceivable seconds of time spent together. Our smiles. Our tears. Our limbs shifting or standing still. The instant our lonely souls are filled.

I’ve never lived or loved wilder and freer than with him.”
― Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

“Why is it that the people you come to love are the ones that seem to hurt you the most?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Lo shakes his head at him.
“What?” he says.
”You’re walking a thin fucking line.”
“I always am, little brother.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“Some battles are best fought with a sidekick.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I have so many regrets. I don’t believe anyone who says they don’t. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I know the kind of remorse that puts deep pain on your chest, the kind that feels as weighted as Atlas bearing the world. It’s soul-crushing.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I think that should be Ryke’s motto. It just happened. Or better yet, throw in his favorite word. It just fucking happened.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“I have so many regrets. I don't believe anyone who says they don't. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back?”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now

“You couldn’t chaperone a fucking sloth. And that requires remedial skills like sitting and watching.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now