The Ex Quotes

“When he was gone, I blocked his number and then deleted it from my phone. When I say good-bye, I mean it.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he dismissed my cursing as an uncreative vocabulary. I think being able to use one little four letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“I despise hearing about other people’s problems, because I don’t like most people, especially people who would be described as normal.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“Jack and his fake cuss words. Cheese and crackers. Monkey flunker. And, yes, Pluck a duck. I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end, I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he’d dismiss my “cursing” as an “uncreative vocabulary.” I think being able to use one little four-letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“Le New York Observer s'était déjà demandé s'il serait un jour possible de voir un homme noir libéré sous caution dans le cadre d'un procès pour meurtre, et je devais bien admettre que non.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“Mais j'avais fini par atteindre le terme du délai de huit ans après lequel toute possibilité de devenir partenaire reste illusoire: je n'avais pas réalisé mon rêve. J'avais facturé des milliards d'heures. J'approchais la loi "de manière calme et professionnelle", mais je n'étais "pas parvenue à développer des relations significatives avec les mentors" ni "à adopter un rôle de leader auprès des associés plus jeunes". Je n'avais "pas fait preuve d'un potentiel de développement client significatif". J'étais "trop aride dans mes communications interpersonnelles". [...] En gros, je connaissais mon métier, mais personne ne m'appréciait.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“- Vous avez déjà entendu dire que rester assis était le plus court chemin vers la mort? m'a-t-il lancé entre deux halètements. Je mange comme un oisillon - des légumes, du poisson bouilli, du putain de quinoa - mais je reste assis toute la journée. Un gros lard qui engouffrait une barre au sirop d'érable m'a dépassé en courant jusqu'au quatrième étage. Une barre de sirop d'érable! Merde, qui mange ce genre de truc?
- Les gens qui ne sont pas assis toute la journée? ai-je proposé.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“Il était venu au commissariat de son plein gré. Il n'avait pas appelé d'avocat. Il avait accepté un test de résidu de tir. Et il utilisait le même mot de passe pour tous ses comptes. Jack était décidément toujours aussi naïf.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“condoms”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“It’s a funny thing. When you’re tired, general cognitive ability drops. There’s scientific evidence to back that up, no question. Because you’re slacking off, some other part of your brain—the base, the lizard, the id, whatever you want to call it—tries to compensate. Eighty-five percent brain-dead, fifteen-percent instinctive genius.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“she had that teacher who got her into her poetry. She even talked about applying to a writing program. But then it became clear that it was all just a crush on an older man. It was always about men for her.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“I stopped picking up after myself, put less effort into my appearance around the apartment, snapped at him on occasion. He seemed happy as ever, so I spent more time without him and was bossier when we were together. Before I knew it, it was like I was playing a game to see just how much Jack could take.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“short, I could do the work, but no one liked me.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“A un certo punto avevano attaccato con una cover di Anything Anything dei Dramarama, e noi eravamo corsi a ballare sotto il palco, mentre il cantante strillava e si dimenava. […] E poi, quando era arrivato il ritornello finale, il cantante aveva continuato a ripetere senza sosta il verso finale: Just marry me, marry me, marry meeeee.
All'improvviso si erano accese le luci, il cantante si era zittito e Jack si era inginocchiato davanti a me.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“seemed”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“Funny how that works. Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“I’m not good at everything. Or, to be more honest, I’m pretty bad on some fairly major metrics. I’m selfish. I feel entitled to things always going my way. I despise hearing about other people’s problems, because I don’t like most people, especially people who would be described as normal. They say ignorance is bliss? I think bliss is for the ignorant.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“When he was gone I blocked his number and then deleted it from my phone. When I say good bye I mean it.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex

“Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.”
― Alafair Burke, The Ex