Dearest Clementine Quotes

“God, you make me hot when you talk grammar.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I'm tired of being so closed off. It hasn't made me any stronger or braver. It hasn't imparted any wisdom or comfort. It has just made me lonely.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Oh man. You have it just as bad, huh?" She hugs me and I nod. [...]
Jenna looks like she's debating something when she whispers, "I don't want to make you feel bad about this because I know you had a lot going on, but he sang this song for you last weekend."

But I wasn't there. Shit.
As the weight of that sinks in, I'm overwhelmed. He was going to tell me he loved me first.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Wanted you to meet Murphy, the new guitarist. Very cute. Laughing, I respond: Stop trying to set me up! Jenna: Your vagina is going to close up, and you’ll need surgical assistance to use it again.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some scene at a football game that ends with the crowd doing the slow clap. It's official. Romantic comedies have ruined me.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“You have the emotional capacity of a garden gnome.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“You were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. You have always mesmerized me.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Ruin what?” He brushes the hair away from my eyes. “I might never be able to date another man.” He leans over and grazes my earlobe with his teeth, sending warm shivers down my arms. “That’s the plan.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“You probably don't realize this, but you're hard to forget.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I don't show a lot of things. I don't know if that's good or bad.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Don’t worry. I have insurance. And battery-operated accessories that don’t cheat on me or stalk me. Can’t beat that!”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower on a summer night. A tidal wave crashing onto the breakers. Falling over the edge of Niagara Falls in an inner tube. Because I have fallen, irreparably for Gavin Murphy”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Because you'll always be special to me. Because I should have apologized years ago. Because I want you to be happy.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“If I do, if I do forget, will you remind me?”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“Don't apologize. You don't have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“I want to warn you. I'm going to kiss you, and you're going to like it.A lot.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“You can make demands when you're in demand”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“When confronted with a major emotional trigger like this, I have two modes - fight or flight -”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine

“We grew up together. We played in the same crib. You were my first kiss when I was twelve, the first girl to slap me when I was an ass, and the first girl to break my heart. But I also think you've taught me more than anyone I know. You're not some random woman. Now let me take care of this or you'll hurt my feelings.”
― Lex Martin, Dearest Clementine