99 Quotes by Melissa Bank

Archie asked me if I knew Dante’s definition of hell... “Proximity without intimacy,” he said.

He loves New York, he says. ‘It’s like Oberlin – it’s where people who don’t belong anywhere belong.

You sense that he’s dangerous but don’t now why – and wonder if it’s because he makes you feel safer than you’ve ever felt.

Whenever people say they didn’t like the main character of a book, they mean they didn’t like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don’t get that.

The one I love the most is about two mayflies on a date; they watch a nature documentary about themselves and discover their life span is only one day long – after mating, they’ll die.

You try to plan your life, but that’s not how it works.

By late August, I’m on my second sublet, and I’ve been working as a copywriter long enough to know I’m not good at it. I seem to be reliving the life I had when I was twenty-two, but I’m about to run twenty-eight, which feels like the opposite of twenty-two.

He could do whatever he wanted. My father was the same way: a houseful of guests, and my mother’s duty was to provide food, drink, fun, and conversation, while my father’s was to nap or read.

Oliver Biddle was who you became if you couldn’t find anyone to love except your parents.