Getting to Happy Quotes

“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I had been on a whole lot of folks' prayer lists and God had known for years my address was still 111 Unlucky-in-LOve-Avenue.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“They're bored with their boring husbands who are workaholics like my dad. They're bored with their boring lives, sick of us kids and all this puberty and rebelling, so they pop pills all day long and shop and watch the soaps, and then when it all starts to fall apart they realize they just want to be happy again, so they go to rehab to clean up their act and then start fresh. Can you relate?”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Their young live were over, too, except they had to die everyday while still breathing.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Gay is the new straight, in case you haven't noticed.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Okay, so I lied about my age. Everybody does.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I wanted to know how it feels to lose everything. How do you plan for tomorrow when all you have is today?”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I think we owe it to ourselves to start doing as much as we possibly can to make ourselves as happy as we possibly can for as long as we possibly can and to hell with all the bullshit that doesn’t.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Women need to stick together and stop sorry men like Jesse from getting away with so much. They want us to be enemies, when they’re the ones who try to pit us against each other.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“I believe the only way to evaluate how we’re living is how we’re not living.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” Her epigraph in Getting to Happy (Waiting to Exhale #2)”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” Getting to Happy (Waiting to Exhale #2)”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy