99 Quotes by Melissa Bank

I felt I couldn’t lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I’d lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

While home is the place where you can relax and be yourself, this doesn’t mean that you can take advantage of the love and affection other members of your family have for you.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I’d ever experienced-the teachers who’d looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn’t like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

I feel in some ways I’ve had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, ‘Just be yourself,’ as though I had any idea who that might be.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

The only relationships I haven’t wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

Happiness is a dog sunning itself on a rock. We were not put on this Earth to be happy. We were put here to experience great things.

He said, “People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.