Quotes from Two-Way Street

“People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Look, do you want to come in? Because for someone who's not talking to me, you certainly seem to have a lot to say.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one.
- Courtney”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the phone." Which is obviously a lie.
"Fine," he says.
"Fine," I say.
"Wait!"
"What now?!"
"Court?"
I don't say anything.
"Are you there?"
"Yes, I'm here," I say, "What is it?"
"I love you." And then he hangs up the phone.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“In my mind, I still think of him as being a cheater. Otherwise he just met some girl he liked better, and it's not as dramatic.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Maybe it’s our bodies’ way of telling us we were meant to be. Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“I’m too quiet. But I’m really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don’t like to talk first.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“This"I’m so over him. This is me, being over him. La,la,la.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“My eyes are a little blood shot from crying, and my hair's messy. But other than that i don't look like someone who's world is falling apart"
-Courtney; Two way street

i love this quote. I'm not entirely sure why, but i just do. I guess probably the because it true.. once you're in that position.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“a) he's late.
b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off.
c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead.

The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.)”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“a road trip with her ex? danger ahead...”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Last year I kissed this freshman girl at a pool party and she wouldn’t get off my nuts for six months. Which is why my policy is now no psychotics, and no freshmen. The freshmen thing is obviously easy to avoid, while the psychotics pose a bit more of a problem. It’s not like girls walk around with “I’m crazy” stamped on their chests.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Because she left him a MySpace message that was semi-flirty, and then today he was very vague about what he was doing. So I headed over to his house and waited outside until he left. And now he’s at McDonald’s, and I’m following him to see where else he’s going.” MySpace is seriously going to be responsible for everyone losing their minds.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“You're still riding home with me right?" He asks Courtney watching me at the corner of his eye. What's with this guy? he looks like he's about one second from taking a baseballbat to my knees. Or wanting to. I wonder if this is how serial killers start out. Wasn't Unabomber really goos at math?”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“- Dude, it's Jocelyn, I (Jordan) say looking over my shoulder nervously [...]
- This isn't Jocelyn, B.J says sighing. It's Jordan. Dude, try to play a better trick than that. You sound nothing like her. Plus your number came up on my caller ID.

PS: maybe I'm just in a very good mood, but I keep laughing while reading this book, there are plenty of scenes that make me smile, and this is one of them.. it's just hilarious how silly and funny these characters are ;))”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“My eyes are a little blood shot from crying, and my hair's messy. But other than that i don't look like someone who's world is falling apart.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“No matter how much you tell yourself you're over someone, your heart knows the truth”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“You're not eating the cheese," Frank says accusingly. And you're fucking my mom, I want to say back.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Hello?" I say, sounding upbeat, and like I'm happy to be on the phone. I decide to pretend it's my imaginary girlfriend. Fuck pretending to be nice.
"Yo, " B. J. Says.
"What's going on, honey?" I say, trying to glance at Courtney out of the corner of my eye without her noticing that that's what I'm doing. She's going through her bag, probably looking for more makeup, so she can make herself look good for Lloyd.
"Honey?" B. J. Asks. "Jordy, I had no idea you felt that way about me. I have to warn you, though, I happen to be in a very committed relationship. "
"Yeah, I miss you, too. ”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“Because, let's face it-no matter how much you tell yourself you're over someone, your heart knows the truth.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend?" B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things that aren't spelled out for him.
"Of course, sweetie, " I say. I try not to think about the fact that I'm talking to B. J. Like we're in love. B. J. Is six-foot-four and 220 pounds. Not someone you want to think about being intimate with.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

“He takes a chicken tender and dunks it into the honey mustard. Something about that makes me sad. Because all the little things about him, like the way he loves honey mustard and the way he always forgets the cheese on my burger, aren't mine anymore. It's weird that everything can be the same, that he can go on liking honey mustard, and yet everything is different.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, quote from Two-Way Street

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“The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my singleness: It’s not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say – they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation – yes, honey, okay, honey – is the same as concord. He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don’t land me in one of those relationships where we’re always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and ‘playfully’ scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about. Those awful if only relationships: This marriage would be great if only… and you sense the if only list is a lot longer than either of them realizes.

So I know I am right not to settle, but it doesn’t make me feel better as my friends pair off and I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself, This is perfect, as if I’m the one dating me. As I go to endless rounds of parties and bar nights, perfumed and sprayed and hopeful, rotating myself around the room like some dubious dessert. I go on dates with men who are nice and good-looking and smart – perfect-on-paper men who make me feel like I’m in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

So you suffer through the night with the perfect-on-paper man – the stutter of jokes misunderstood, the witty remarks lobbed and missed. Or maybe he understands that you’ve made a witty remark but, unsure of what to do with it, he holds it in his hand like some bit of conversational phlegm he will wipe away later. You spend another hour trying to find each other, to recognise each other, and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, quote from Gone Girl

“To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”
― Garth Stein, quote from The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from Allegiant

“And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.”
― quote from The Qur'an / القرآن الكريم

“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Number the Stars

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