Ex Boyfriends Quotes

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

“...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.”
― Alexa Chung, It

“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir

“He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?”
― Erin Jamison, Better Than 8: Fantasy

“So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.

'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her.

She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?'

'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy

“But it's that fucking dress she's wearing. It's low-cut and tight and just...Jesus. Why would she wear a dress like that? Is she doing it just to torture me? I like the idea that maybe she had me in mind when she picked it out. Of course, she might be wearing it because she wants to get attention from other guys.
I look around the wedding suspiciously, trying to see if anyone is looking at her. I don't want to have to punch someone out, but i'll do it if I have to.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, Right of Way

“..reading your ex's horoscope every week isn't going to help you control his life. No, you need to hide in his bushes, break into his email, or kidnap his dog if you want to effect any real change.”
― Jenny Mollen, I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“These days, though, he was as unpredictable as an alley cat. One minute, he’s purring on
your lap. The next, he’s scowling at you from the window sill, and you’re left wondering if he’s plotting your demise over there, just waiting for you to fall asleep. That’s Will.”
― Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

“Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. "You're an idiot." "Seems to be a common conclusion. You're not my favourite person right now either.”
― Sloan Parker, Take Me Home

“I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.”
― Dandi Daley Mackall, My Boyfriends' Dogs

“I feel an irrational craving to gaze at his familiar face from this place of safety all night. But I can't. And I'm being stupid, because this isn't old Joe, whom I loved and understood. This is new Joe, who is cruel and inexplicable. They only look the same.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“Hey lady.” Sandy wrapped her arms around Darcy’s neck and kissed her cheek quickly. “So, are we burning anything of his in some occult ritual that will curse him and all his unborn children till the end of their days, or are we just going to key his car?”
― D.A. Rhine, Vampires of the Chesapeake: Kian MacTiernan

“Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial and chest piercings. I am very fortunate to have just been schooled by someone who looks like they graduated from Care Bear Carnage University.”
― Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading

“(anger is important fuel for ending an ill-fated love affair)”
― Sacha Naspini, Nives

“I regret a lot of things, like believing that Joe and I would have grandchildren together one day. But here's the truth: I don't want to "feel it". I'm tired of "feeling it". I need my outer protective layers to click shut, quickly.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“For someone who looks after hearts, you can be careless. You know you broke mine, don't you?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“Sometimes you have to look at it like this. If that’s the chick he married, no wonder it didn’t work out with you.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny, Love, Lust and Regrets: While the lights were off

“This is, after all, Nova’s computer. Yet when he opens the browser (feeling just a pinch of guilt), it automatically goes to a photo site, and suddenly their faces are everywhere, gazing back at him from sunnier times.

Mason shrinks away, avoiding both sets of eyes. Nova, the masochist.

It would have been better if they hadn’t had that in common.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

“I just don’t think you should go around saying, ‘Then it will be over.’ It’s not the end. It’s just the start of a new chapter. Just new shit that you have to figure out how to cope with.”

“Fuck, you are grim.”

“Pot, kettle.”

Harper sighs. “We’ll be lucky if Nova sticks around long enough to wave good-bye.”

Mason laughs despite himself. “Fair.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go

“He could make a new life here. There might be bags of cotton candy and pretzels. Those things never go bad. Though a life lived on stale pretzels seems like a pretty steep sentence for crimes of the heart.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams

“Amaris keeps texting me pictures of him. She took him to the record shop. She says he’s really into Pink Floyd.”

He laughs, scrubbing a hand through his hair. “I mean, who doesn’t love The Wall?”

“I always thought he was a Yellow Submarine kind of frog.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Black Tree Chaise

“Was it good? The first time we kissed?”

Mason snorts. “I’m pretty sure no one’s ever had a better first kiss.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Witch's Judgment

“He knows Rio better than he knows his own hands. They were something like something for that long.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse