Lex Martin > Quotes

“God, you make me hot when you talk grammar.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I'm tired of being so closed off. It hasn't made me any stronger or braver. It hasn't imparted any wisdom or comfort. It has just made me lonely.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Wanted you to meet Murphy, the new guitarist. Very cute. Laughing, I respond: Stop trying to set me up! Jenna: Your vagina is going to close up, and you’ll need surgical assistance to use it again.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Oh man. You have it just as bad, huh?" She hugs me and I nod. [...]
Jenna looks like she's debating something when she whispers, "I don't want to make you feel bad about this because I know you had a lot going on, but he sang this song for you last weekend."

But I wasn't there. Shit.
As the weight of that sinks in, I'm overwhelmed. He was going to tell me he loved me first.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some scene at a football game that ends with the crowd doing the slow clap. It's official. Romantic comedies have ruined me.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“You have the emotional capacity of a garden gnome.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“You were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. You have always mesmerized me.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Ruin what?” He brushes the hair away from my eyes. “I might never be able to date another man.” He leans over and grazes my earlobe with his teeth, sending warm shivers down my arms. “That’s the plan.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“That’s the thing about a reputation. It’s hard to break and even harder to reinvent.”
― Lex Martin, Reckless

“You’re the World Series. He was Little League.”
― Lex Martin, Shameless

“I don't show a lot of things. I don't know if that's good or bad.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Because in another lifetime, in a parallel world—one where he doesn’t live on the other side of the country—I think he’s the kind of man I could love.”
― Lex Martin, Shameless

“You're all I think about. You're all I want. You have nothing to worry about.”
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“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited.” - Sherwood Anderson”
― Lex Martin, Shameless

“You probably don't realize this, but you're hard to forget.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Because you'll always be special to me. Because I should have apologized years ago. Because I want you to be happy.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“If I do, if I do forget, will you remind me?”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“See, there are happily ever afters. Even for assholes like me.”
― Lex Martin, Finding Dandelion

“  “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Lex Martin, Kissing Madeline

“I’m pretty sure little hearts are popping out of my eyes right now. Here is this hot man, tattoos decorating his rugged arms, muscles tugging at the fabric, asking me about the baby’s binkie while he holds her close to his chest. Hello, ovary explosion.”
― Lex Martin, Shameless

“Don’t worry. I have insurance. And battery-operated accessories that don’t cheat on me or stalk me. Can’t beat that!”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower on a summer night. A tidal wave crashing onto the breakers. Falling over the edge of Niagara Falls in an inner tube. Because I have fallen, irreparably for Gavin Murphy”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“The girl who grew up watching old Madonna videos wants to embrace my sexual freedom”
― Lex Martin, Finding Dandelion

“If you don’t fight for what you love, don’t cry for what you lose.” - Anonymous”
― Lex Martin, Finding Dandelion

“I want to warn you. I'm going to kiss you, and you're going to like it.A lot.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Don't apologize. You don't have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Ugh, why is it when men do anything sexual, they get a pat on the back, but if women do it, they get treated like whores?”
― Lex Martin, All About the D

“From the passenger seat of Michael’s car, I eye the pharmacy like it’s a viper waiting to strike. “Look, I know you’re a ‘rip the Band-Aid off’ kind of person, so let’s go in there and get a pregnancy test,” Michael says. “At least we’ll know what we’re dealing with.” I turn to him, surprised. “How do you know this about me and Band-Aids?” “Because once, a long time ago, you and I used to be friends. You always told your mom you wanted the bad news first.” “And you remember this?” His eyes travel over my face, and I hate that it’s probably red and swollen from puking, but he gives me a tender smile. “I remember a lot of things about you.”
― Lex Martin, The Baby Blitz