I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You Quotes

“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, “I love you. I’ve always loved you back.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“I fell asleep smiling, fully at ease with the ludicrous prospect of spending the rest of my life with this one, single person. It's not quite right what they say: love doesn't make you blind, it makes you optimistic.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“They were too near to me. I loved them to much. And the love overtaking me and combined with the fact that I was going to spend another evening alone, doing nothing with it, being waited down to motionlessness by my own actions made me want to get it over with and fucking be alone.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don't. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, "I love you. I've always loved you back.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“I will say this about the upper echelon in France: they know how to spend money. From what I saw living in America, wealth is dedicated to elevating the individual experience. If you’re a well-off child, you get a car, or a horse. You go to summer camps that cost as much as college. And everything is monogrammed, personalized, and stamped, to make it that much easier for other people to recognize your net worth.



…The French bourgeois don’t pine for yachts or garages with multiple cars. They don’t build homes with bowling alleys or spend their weekends trying to meet the quarterly food and beverage limit at their country clubs: they put their savings into a vacation home that all their family can enjoy, and usually it’s in France. They buy nice food, they serve nice wine, and they wear the same cashmere sweaters over and over for years. I think the wealthy French feel comfortable with their money because they do not fear it. It’s the fearful who put money into houses with even bedrooms and fifteen baths. It’s the fearful who drive around in yellow Hummers during high-gas-price months becasue if they’re going to lose their money tomorrow, at least other people will know that they are rich today. The French, as with almost all things, privilege privacy and subtlety and they don’t feel comfortable with excess. This is why one of their favorite admonishments is tu t’es laisse aller. You’ve lost control of yourself. You’ve let yourself go.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“And there were times when I wanted to go off and leave, to find something better. But you know what? It doesn’t get better. If you really love her, if you really, really love her, it won’t get any better than this. But just try to remember that you do love her, you know, because it gets so easy to forget.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“If you do things in plain sight, people don’t interfere. It’s when you get all surreptitious that the trouble starts.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“love doesn’t make you blind, it makes you optimistic.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“They’ve always made a bigger deal about the side effects of drinking pregnant in America than they have in France. But then, the Americans make a bigger deal of everything. It’s a bad sign, this trial. It shows very poor taste. It shows that French people are eager to place the blame elsewhere for their own choices. Between that and the arrival of Starbucks, you’ll see.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“It's not quite right what they say: love doesn't make you blind, it makes you optimistic.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Expandable is exactly what a marriage is. If you refuse the possibility that bad things might happen, a marriage cannot survive.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“American girls always smell like fruit.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Fruit and cognac are good for warming the throat and belly, but they can’t heal a hurt heart.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“in the end, that’s why some of us stupid humans get married. Because we know that we can lose each other, and find each other again. Because we’re capable of forgiveness.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Forward is forward.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“In the end, that's why some of us stupid humans get married. Because we know that we can lose each other and find each other again.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Startled from a bad dream, or perhaps still in one...”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“She had endless legs and high-waisted pants, which even on a girl of her attractiveness drew an unnecessary amount of attention to her pelvic floor.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Fragile and tidal are the bonds of those in a déntente. Only ten minutes ago, I was hopeful, buoyed by good news. And now, walking toward home again, a home that wasn't home really, I felt crushed by disappointment and, worse yet, ignorance. I'd been assuming that his separation was as hard for Anne as it was for me. But I now realized that my wife might be experiencing this period in a completely different manner. That instead of feeling confined, she might at last feel free.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“When a woman you have cried against postcoitus tells you she’s leaving you for a man whose claim to fame is the conjoining of a soup spoon and a fork, you wait for the ringer, you wait for the joke.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“Some people self-soothe in retail outlets; I bask in pink wine.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“He has an affair, so we have another baby?" said Anne. "This is great fucking advice."
"What elegant language," said her father, glaring at Anne.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“They've always made a bigger deal about the side effects of drinking pregnant in America than they have in France.But then, the Americans make a bigger deal of everything.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“If you were to succeed in prolonging the deliriously ecstatic puppy-dog love stage of the first months of courtship through-out the entire relationship itself-through marriage, unto death-would this same love, so celebrated, so sought after, break down in utter incredulity at the duration of its own existence?”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“People don't want to think about defects when they are drinking wine.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

“MOMENTS OF great import are often tinged with darkness because perversely we yearn to be let down.”
― Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You