Dating You / Hating You Quotes

“I’m notoriously married to my job.”
“That’s super convenient because so am I. It’ll be like we’re cheating on our jobs with each other.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“You look like you’re cycling through a lot of things right now.”
“Like what?”
“Like whether you should kiss me or punch me.”
“It’s a daily struggle.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative-ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“I think I’m only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don’t show up any of the men. Speak up, but don’t be bitchy. Smile. And then you have people like Brad totally playing into it. I”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“You’re wound so tight,” he whispers before bending to kiss my neck. “How do I make you unravel?”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“I'm not an optimist, but I'm not exactly a pessimist, either. I'm a wait-and-see-when-you-have-more-info-ist.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“You'd think I'd be used to this sort of thing by now - navigating a room full of matched-up people, alone - but somehow it never really gets easier.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Oh, I'm sorry," she says, hands to her hips, "I can't hear your man-baby words over the seventy-five phone calls from people wanting to buy my nonexistent Tesla.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“As parents we put our kids through the strangest things because we think it’s giving them some sort of advantage.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Now, before you think I’m putting too much thought into this, let me remind you that I am no longer in my twenties, and when you meet men at my age you immediately place them on one of three lists, just to make life easier for everyone: datable, not datable, or gay.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Screw him and his perfect forearms and cute crooked smile and diva brother.
I'm so tired of wanting to shove him into the wall and then shove my hand down his pants.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“But because the universe is a cat, and I am but a fuzzy ball of string”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Evie will have to be smarter, faster, and better at her job than you are, for possibly less money and a whole lot less recognition, all while appearing totally grateful for it.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“I think I’m only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don’t show up any of the men. Speak up, but don’t be bitchy. Smile. And then you have people like Brad totally playing into it.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“I'll tell you, for a moment I blacked out and fantasized about pushing him off the balcony. Just a little shove and he would bounce like a tennis ball.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“I'm sure she's furious, and the last thing I'll see before I die will be an orange-tinted Evie with her hands wrapped around my neck.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“You did this!"
"You want to point fingers, Chef Decaf?"
I giggle in spite of myself. "Pardon?”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“My instinct is to pick up his stapler and launch it as his head”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Tonight I am going to stress-eat a box of cookies like the world has never seen”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“But initially, being with someone should feel like the best and most natural thing in the world”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“Are guys taking over the ankle flirtation game? I am here for it.”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You

“You give good
shoulder”
― Christina Lauren, Dating You / Hating You