The Boyfriend Quotes

“so right now I’m drinking some pre-coffee coffee.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“unbecredifabulous.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Great. Now I’m a flower murderer.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Romance novels give you an extremely unrealistic concept of romance. If I were a character in one of those books, our meet-cute would have quickly been followed by Mystery Man ripping off his T-shirt to reveal gleaming, rock-hard abs and then thrusting his throbbing loins against me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“It feels like a new word needs to be created to encompass the last two hours spent in my bedroom. Like, I don’t know…mind-blowingly…unbecredifabulous.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Murderers often visit the funerals of their victims.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“I don’t need a hero. I just need a decent guy.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“I’m Tom. Tom Brown.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“A Diet Coke?” Kevin seems affronted. “That’s boring. Get a real drink.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“The reason I feel connected to Daisy is because she’s exactly like me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“If Daisy asked me to eat garbage, I would do it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Common misconception.” He presses his thumb into a vein running over the back of my hand until it compresses. “But untrue. Deoxygenated blood is still red, although darker. The reason veins are blue is because skin absorbs blue light. The subcutaneous fat will only allow blue light to penetrate to the veins, so this is what you see reflected back by your retina.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Romance novels give you an extremely unrealistic concept of romance.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“I’m not trying to marry a millionaire. All I want is a decent man who doesn’t have a drinking or a gambling problem, who is fun to talk to, who has a nice smile, and who likes me as much as I like him. Is that really such an impossible dream? I suppose it must be, or else I wouldn’t be alone right now.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“What a great meet-cute. I can already imagine telling the story to our children. This jerk was trying to kiss me, and that, kids, is how I met your father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Romance novels give you an extremely unrealistic concept of romance. If”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“looked through every damn profile, and there was not one guy who resembled Mystery Man living within a five-mile radius of this building. (Yes, I am that desperate.)”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“If I grabbed her head and gave it a solid twist to the left, I could break her neck. It wouldn’t even be hard to do.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“While I watch in astonishment, he drops down onto one knee.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“But she’s dead.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“You killed it. It was growing happily in the ground, and now it’s going to die.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“I wonder if she would still feel the same way if she knew the thoughts that were going through my head as I squeezed the blood out of her finger.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“But on the other hand, it wouldn’t be the most shocking thing in the world. It wouldn’t be like finding out, I don’t know, that my mom is a serial killer.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Thanks for dinner.” “Sure thing.” Kevin slides the check across the table to me. “Your share comes to thirty-eight dollars.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“Make sure you don’t forget her birthday or Valentine’s Day,” she says. “And all girls love flowers.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“After all”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“posthumously”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“couldn’t”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“And I’m terrified that the moment I get her alone”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“All I want is a decent man who doesn’t have a drinking or a gambling problem, who is fun to talk to, who has a nice smile, and who likes me as much as I like him. Is that really such an impossible dream? I suppose it must be, or else I wouldn’t be alone right now.”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend