“And the third is from him: Second date? I immediately text him back: Hell yeah! Then I collapse on my bed and enjoy that butterflies in the stomach feeling. I ve felt the butterflies before from time to time, but this is the first time I haven t sort of wanted to attack them with a flyswatter.”
“If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.”
“...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it s a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend s boyfriend s parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.”
“Find yourself first, and be surprised at how quickly and logically “the” one just appears in front of you.”
“My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money”
“We ve decided that your birthday present will be a car , said Marion. Danny was touched. But the thing I can t figure out is, why would I need a new car? You can t very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny, Leslie replied. I think you re overlooking the biggest point here, said Danny. I don t need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.”
“I fell in love with him. But I don t just stay with him by default as if there s no one else available. I stay with him because I choose to everyday that I wake up, everyday that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
“The purpose of a relationship is to reflect to all the others in the relationship what they need to understand to become more of themselves. Everyone in a relationship is in a relationship for the purpose of helping the other people in the relationship, giving them opportunities to learn to be who they are more and more.”
“Elizabeth: Maybe he ll surprise you. Meghann: Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.”
“Dating is no charge prostitution.”
“A full lifer doesn t commit to anyone until they ve committed to her”
“You doan go diggin for gold in an outhouse.”
“A man who offers to cook after he s seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.”
“Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking hello in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog s mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense -- last night she d been hunting for a mate as well.”
“He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn t have been planned.”
“We window-shopped along Court Street, the closest thing Brooklyn has to Manhattan, perusing the indie clothing boutiques, bookstores, and Italian bakeries, and stopped at Frankies 457 Spuntino, a casual Italian restaurant that every young Brooklynite loves, to pound fresh ricotta, gnocchi, and meatballs. Afterward, I dragged us ten blocks out of the way to hit up Sugar Shop, a modern-retro candy store I loved, to load up on malt balls and gummies. We strolled the magnificent blocks of Victorian homes and green lawns in Ditmas Park, as if suddenly transported from the city s whirl to a faraway college town, perusing the rhubarb, Bibb lettuces, and buckets of fresh clams at the farmers market, before demolishing fried egg sandwiches on ciabatta at the Farm on Adderly, one of the boroughs now-prolific farm-to-table restaurants. We shared pizza at Franny s: one red, one white, both pockmarked with giant charred blisters from the exceedingly hot brick oven. In a borough known for its temples of pizza worship, before it closed in the summer of 2017, Franny s was right up there, owing to the perfect flavors oozing from each simple ingredient, from the milky mozzarella to the salty-sweet tomato sauce to the briny black olives.”
“A girl or woman that drinks or smokes is very unlikely to still be a virgin.”