Boyfriend Quotes
151 quotes
"I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me."
"When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman."
"We kiss all the time."I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private.""A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.""A reminder of w-w-what?""That you were mine."
"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."
"But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles"
"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships"
"When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth."
"I'm offering you love on a stick. If you'd like, you can grab it to go. It’s like a popsicle, only it won’t melt if you put it through hell like you did with you last boyfriend."
"I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind"
"We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private." "A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder." "A reminder of w-w-what?" "That you were mine."
"Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us."
"He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits."
"Love, they said, burns youand builds you.But with you, there’s no ash.Just light."
"It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night."
"I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different."
Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
"Here's another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isn't anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me, then you’re the best part.And if you're separate from me, then you are my destination.But I’ve become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart."
"We live only for the hope of love."
"Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa."
"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."
"A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true."
"Some people will hate you for not loving them."
"The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you."
"Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present."
"Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished."
"Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich."
"He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light."
"It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead."
"If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi."
"In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love."
"Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you."
"A soulmate is a direct pathway to God."
"I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light."
"I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you."
"Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?"
"I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in myexperience 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."
"You can always evaluate a man's character by the way he speaks about his ex girlfriends and other women. When entering a new relationship or getting close with a new guy, make sure you take notice of the language he uses when referring to other girls"
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours."
"She wasn't his girlfriend. She was his bubblegum girl--only fun until she lost her flavor."
"The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became."
"If you ever want to know how a man truly feels about you, do absolutely nothing. Then you'll have your answer."
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
"I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I’m the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all."
"It was just my reality, to never have a boy be interested in me romantically for more than one random moment. Like a TV show you don't like but you end up watching anyway, because there's nothing else on."
"If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else."
"I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you."
"The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me."
"The West Sister Dating Rules were clear on the matter of apologies. On the evolutionary scale of dating, a guy who apologized solely for the sake of ending the argument and getting back into your good graces was on the level of primeval slime — especially if he was clearly doing so merely because he was hoping for sex. The proper response was to unveil the offender’s deceit by demanding he explain what exactly he was apologizing for, and then scorn him when he betrayed his ignorance."
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