Quotes from One Week Girlfriend

“But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“There’s no going back,” he whispers … “Once I am inside you, you’re mine.”
…
“I want to be yours,” I answer in a breathy whisper. “I want to belong to you, Drew. Only you.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“It’s the people who know you the best who can hurt you the most.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“This isn’t a game to me, Fable. This is my life. And I want you to be a part of it … I want you and you only. I’m not sharing you with anyone else.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I always want him. Always.
It’s always like this between us, too. We come together and we simply…combust. So easily. Beautifully. Does he even know how he affects me? Does he realize how my heart now rests in his hands? I belong to him completely”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I want to map every inch of her skin with my mouth. I want to sit with her in my arms and kiss her for hours, until our lips are swollen and our jaws are tired. I want to know what she looks like when she comes. And I want to be the one who makes her come with my name falling from her lips.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I’m too caught up in this…pretend life I’m so completely submersed in. And you know what? I like it. I love it. Even though I know deep down inside, it’s fake. That the way you talk to me, look at me, touch me. Kiss me…is all for show. I’m some sort of protection for you but I don’t care. I want it.
I want you.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“She's a contradiction and I want to figure her out”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I really need to break him of the bad language habit he’s developing at a rapid pace, but who am I to talk? I curse all the fucking time.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“He might be more trouble than he’s worth but I don’t think so. This man came into my life for some reason. Just as I came into his. Maybe we’re supposed to help each other cope.
Or give each other hope.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“She’s consuming me and I’m letting it happen. Revelling in it, really.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“Honestly, I don’t quite know how we got to this point. I hated him on sight. I did this only for the money. I thought he was a fucked up mess. I still think he’s a fucked up mess.
But so am I. And he’s so beautiful, so thoughtful, so vulnerable. We can be a mess together. I want to heal him. I know I can heal him.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I want to believe in the fairy tale.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“Only a fool trips on what’s behind him.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“Jeez, I sound bitter even in my own head.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.” —Arrigo Boito”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“A text from Fable and it says one word. Marshmallow”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“My worst enemy is behind me because of you.
And there’s still a lot left for me to explain.
Right now, all I can think about is you.
So many things in my life confuse me and…
Hurt me—except you.
Maybe we can be together again someday.
All I really want is you, but I can’t do this now.
Losing you will be the hardest thing I’ve dealt with yet.
Loving you might be a mistake. Drawing you into my world will
Only hurt you. And I refuse to do that.
Will you ever forgive me?”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“He lifts a brow. I really love it when he does that. “Are you flirting with me?”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“Do you like it?"
"Get it," he says without hesitation. "You look..."
"Okay? Really? It's kind of short."
"That dress is it." His gaze drops to my legs, lingering appreciatively. "And it's definitely not too short.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“So when she tried to leave, I grabbed her hand and asked her to stay.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“You have the most beautiful body I've ever seen.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“—No hay vuelta atrás- susurra... —Una vez esté dentro de ti, serás mía.
...
—Quiero ser tuya- respondo en un susurro entrecortado—. Quiero pertenecer a ti, Drew. Sólo a ti.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I can't believe I've known this girl for only seven days. She's become my everything-and with all my baggage, I've probably become her worst nightmare.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“If she doesn’t watch it, I’m going to send a right hook straight into her too perfect nose.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

“I woke up not fifteen minutes ago and the second I saw your message, I hopped in my truck and sped over here." I spread my arms wide. "Look at me. I ran into the fing rain across my apartment parking lot and yours to get to you.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from One Week Girlfriend

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“Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn't so hard in the coming months to tell Roberta.
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“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists.

What is the use of music? -- of painting? Who would be fool enough nowadays to prefer Mozart to Carrel, Michael Angelo to the inventor of white mustard?

There is nothing really beautiful save what is of no possible use. Everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and man's needs are low and disgusting, like his own poor, wretched nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

For my part, saving these gentry's presence, I am of those to whom superfluities are necessaries, and I am fond of things and people in inverse ratio to the service they render me. I prefer a Chinese vase with its mandarins and dragons, which is perfectly useless to me, to a utensil which I do use, and the particular talent of mine which I set most store by is that which enables me not to guess logogriphs and charades. I would very willingly renounce my rights as a Frenchman and a citizen for the sight of an undoubted painting by Raphael, or of a beautiful nude woman, -- Princess Borghese, for instance, when she posed for Canova, or Julia Grisi when she is entering her bath. I would most willingly consent to the return of that cannibal, Charles X., if he brought me, from his residence in Bohemia, a case of Tokai or Johannisberg; and the electoral laws would be quite liberal enough, to my mind, were some of our streets broader and some other things less broad. Though I am not a dilettante, I prefer the sound of a poor fiddle and tambourines to that of the Speaker's bell. I would sell my breeches for a ring, and my bread for jam. The occupation which best befits civilized man seems to me to be idleness or analytically smoking a pipe or cigar. I think highly of those who play skittles, and also of those who write verse. You may perceive that my principles are not utilitarian, and that I shall never be the editor of a virtuous paper, unless I am converted, which would be very comical.

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― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin

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― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz

“A device is easy to use when the set of possible actions is visible, when the controls and displays exploit natural mappings.”
― Donald A. Norman, quote from Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised)

“Looking back on it, could there possible have been a more confusing acronym for trying to keep kids from experimenting with drugs than DARE?
"Kids, we’re here today to DARE you not to do drugs! We DARE you to accept our DARE!"

"Office, does that mean you want us not to do drugs, or to do drugs?"
“We DARE you not to do drugs!”

"But I thought we weren’t supposed to do things We’re dared to do. If you dared me to jump out of a tree, I should do that, right?"

"It’s just an acronym, son."

"What is an acronym?”
― quote from Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

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