Flings Quotes

“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
― Nora Ephron

“Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue count as a date? They ended up snuggling under the moonlight, drenched in gore and pieces of brain - so it had PROBABLY been a date. If it wasn't, it was certainly a fun time had by all. Well, not ALL. But she and Saracen had sure had a blast.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

“He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?”
― Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

“Affairs are the stuff movies are made of; flings are for TV.”
― Gisela Hausmann, Naked Determination: 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear

“Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked.”
― Toni Morrison

“Graham and I could never last, it was never... I just needed it to exist in a vacuum, where real life didn't matter, where the future didn't matter, where all that mattered was, you know, how we felt that day.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“There was something savage and elemental and feral in him. The fact that he was a savant only added to the intrigue.
I always go for the dangerous boys, Leesha thought.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Stop worrying about when this ends. You can’t tell me the thought hasn’t crossed your mind that it won’t.”
― Scarlet Wolfe, Trust Game