The Exact Opposite of Okay Quotes

“Bitches bite back. And men hate that. Society hates that.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“[It may seem like we're always eating, but that's because we're always eating.]”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“What do I want to be now? Bold. Fierce. Honest. A fighter. A revolutionary. A bitch. Because the way the world treats teenage girls – as sluts, as objects, as bitches – is not okay. It’s the exact opposite of okay.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“I get why he's lashing out. As a privileged white dude, he's used to being able to buy whatever he wants. He lives in a country where even the presidency can be bought.
But he can't buy my love. And that frustrates the hell out of him.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Because you know my motto: do no harm, but take no shit.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Basically, if you're a woman, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“To the innocent onlooker it might seem sort of sweet. To me it seems like he's saying "I don't respect your decision not to want to fuck me, and I will manipulate the hell out of your emotions until you change your mind.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Oh, right," I snap. "And because he's spent enough money and inserted enough friendship tokens, the offer of sex and/or marriage should just fall out anytime now?”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Look at Vaughan. He's done everything I've done. He drank beer, had sex, sent a nude picture. And he just got an offer from Stanford. Why is his life worth more than mine, just because he's rich and male?”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Don't look at me like that. This is a book about a sex scandal: did you really expect me to be a nun and/or the Virgin Mary?”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“The Friend Zone An imaginary area filled with self-professed Nice Guys who've been sexually rejected by women they've been Nice to. See also: A convenient social construct designed to comfort men sho cannot cope with rejection. See also: A manipulative tool used by Nice Guys to make a woman feel guilty for not wanting to have sex with them.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“What a poet I am. Like T S Eliot but with better boobs.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“If the school population discovers I banged two dudes in one night, the girls will call me a bitch and a slut, and the guys will high five and call me easy while flinging their own feces at each other.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Have you tried to find a job?"
"Good God, that's brilliant!" I gasp, faux-astounded. "I had not previously considered this course of action!”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“You're cute when you babble," he says to my total horror and disgust, because unlike the popular noughties rock band, cute is never what I aim for.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Her engagement ring has a Dwayne Johnson of a diamond on it...”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“This entitlement has to stop. The world owes you nothing. Girls owe you nothing.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“As many of the most vile insults usually are, these comments are disguised as concern, like when fat-shamers preach to the obese about their health when really they're just judgemental reptiles who don't like to look at stretch marks lest they choke on their meal-replacement shakes.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“As a feminist I feel immediately guilty because everyone is trying to encourage girls into STEM subjects now, but to be honest I’m not dedicated enough to the Vagenda to force myself to become a computer programmer.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Someone posted a condom stuffed with dog turd through our letterbox this morning. Dumbledore got confused, bless him, and thought it was an exciting new chew toy. And that's the story of how we're going to have to get a new couch.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“I love you so damn much, Izzy, and just because I'm not Channing Tatum I've been relegate to the Friend Zone for the rest of eternity. I have to watch you chase the same good-looking assholes that every other girl wants to fuck, then pick up the pieces after they inevitable screw you over.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Standing on the front steps and trying to catch my breath, I want to claw my skin off. Despite all of the things that make me me - my personality, my heart, my sense of humor - I've been reduced to nothing more than a grainy filter and a pair of tits. To a mere sex object.
I wonder whether I'll ever stop feeling so dirty.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“What's best for one person is another person's worst nightmare.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Was so mad last night I couldn't even bring myself to type out the exchange with Mr. Wells. In fact, I'm still so angry I'm just lying in bed in a vague state of furious nausea, like how I imagine Melania feels when she watches Donald remove his shirt.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“He lets his eyes drop to the ground. [Again, not literally. That would be deeply uncomfortable for him. Nobody wants gravel in their corneas. I mean, maybe you do. I don't know your fetishes.]”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“I mean, anyone can get shot in the head by the Taliban, but it takes a really big person to text a fuckboy. [I am 113 percent being sarcastic here. I firmly believe Malala should be leader of the free world, and also CEO of Hershey's because I swear to God peanut butter cups are getting smaller, which is an act of terrorism in intself.]”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“This is in fact a sly test disguised as an interesting point of conversation. If he doesn't know what a patronus is, I know immediately that there's very little point in proceeding with the bench-based festivities.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Through sheer nerves and stress, my stomach almost plummets through my asshole. [I realize this is a hideous thing to say, but you all know exactly what I mean, and I shall not apologize for vocalizing the sensation.]”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“For the second time today, my stone heart melts. I love my friends. The old ones and the new ones. The real ones, who don't make websites condemning me to an eternity in hell just because I'm not attracted to them.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Art as activism. Like Banksy?"
"Man, Banksy's some white-ass bullshit. Sorry," he apologizes hastily, as though he might've offended my white-ass feelings.
[...]
"A'ight, so the dude flew out to Gaza to spray-paint a kitten on a house that'd been destroyed in an air strike. Like, the fuck? Talk about insensitive. Then our white savior has the audacity to call it art, to demand folks listen to his views on the atrocities of war, rather than the Palestinians who lived through it." He shakes his head, his hand tensing and untensing in mine. "Sorry. Shit drives me crazy sometimes.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay