It Ended Badly Quotes

“Alma also had a brief dalliance with Klimt. Actually, just name any famous man from the period, and you can assume that Alma Mahler had an affair with him. If there was a man in Vienna at the time with whom Alma did not canoodle, he was not worth knowing.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

“a ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for” is a cliché, but it is a beautiful one.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History

“the Marquess of Queenberry was an absolutely hilarious human being. He was an atheist who was prone to going to church services to shout at the ministers.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History

“3rd Marquess of Queensbury (who lived around 1700) was a cannibal.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History

“That’s seriously one of the only nice things we can say about Anna Ivanovna for this entire chapter, so treasure that tidbit.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History

“In my favourite picture of them, Oskar is reading a letter while Olga ties his tie for him. His tie matches her dress. Both of them look kind of preoccupied. You don't look at this picture, as you might with Bride of the Wind, and think "what an amazing love scene". But I do not think in a million years, Oskar and Alma would have had that easy, couply familiarity.
I would also point you to another wonderful picture, in which Olga seems to be speaking animatedly and Oskar is watching her, smiling.
These are normal things. They are not as exciting as stormy, passionate affairs. But they are no less meaningful for being normal. Ultimately, I think instead of being swept up in sex-doll-beheading fury, most people would choose sitting around and eating rice pudding with someone they love and who loves them in return.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

“The book is written by “Lord Timothy Dexter, First in the East, First in the West, and the Greatest Philosopher in the Western World.” If you ever write a memoir, please make up a fun little egotistical description of yourself for your title page. Be bold about it. The book details Timothy’s life in his own somewhat incoherent way. It was written entirely without punctuation. When it was pointed out that the greatest philosopher in the Western world would probably use at least some punctuation (since it was, thank God, no longer the sixteenth century), in the second edition (there were ultimately eight printings) Dexter added a page of punctuation at the end, so readers could insert the marks wherever they liked or, as he claimed, “I put in A Nuf here and they may pepper and salt it as they plese.” If I was really committed to following Dexter’s teaching, I’d have written this chapter without punctuation and just presented you with this page.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History

“Pacts with the devil have been made many times. There is no other way to explain the popularity of the book Fifty Shades of Grey.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of her writing, longhand, after breakfasting in bed and that, when finishing a page, she would just toss it on the floor. Her secretary would then be left to assemble all of the pages in the correct order. It is a testament to the quality of her staff that her work does not seem more disjointed.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

“Male writers, especially male writers during the 1960s, somehow tricked people into thinking that they were demigods because they had an understanding of language.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

“Let me say, there is nothing wrong with a younger woman marrying an older man. However, there is definitely something wrong with anyone marrying Norman Mailer.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

“When Mahler went to a composing retreat, she began having an affair with Walter Gropius, the architect who founded the Bauhaus School. I do not really like the Bauhaus School. But if you started dating the founder of an architectural movement, I’d support you and think your choice was great, and I’d pretend to like his architectural movement when we were all hanging out because I’m a good friend. So Alma was an adulteress and creatively unfulfilled—but she was just killing it with her choice of men.”
― Jennifer Wright, It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History