I Think I Love You Quotes

“You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“She laughed now, and the sound of it--clear as a bell, dirty as a rugby match--turned heads all along their row.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“Sharon had seen a penis, but it was her brother's so it didn't count. Carol was the only girl in our group who had touched a real one....Carol said the penis felt like eyelid skin. Could that be right? For weeks after she told us, I would brush a finger over the skin above my eye and I would marvel that something that was made of boy could be so silky and fine, like tissue paper.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“The best musicians answer something in you when you don’t even know the question.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“When he laughed, Roy's mouth revealed a Stonehenge of ancient teeth.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

“You chose the kind of friends you wanted because you hoped you could be like them and not like you. To improve your image, you made yourself more stupid and less kind. As the months passed, the trade-off for belonging started to feel too great. The shutting down of some vital part of yourself, just so you could be included on a shopping trip into town, not have to sit on your own at lunch or have someone to walk home with. Now among friends, you were often lonelier than you had been before. The hierarchy of girls was so much more brutal than that of boys. The boys battled for supremacy out on the pitch and, after, they showered away the harm. The girls played dirtier. For girls, it was never just a game.”
― Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You