My Favorite Half-Night Stand Quotes

“I'm lonely. I'm lonely because I don't tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don't figure it out on their own.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I feel like we meet people in life and want so much for them to like us that we suck in our stomachs and pretend we don’t fart and tell them a bunch of things we think they want to know. If it works they fall for the person we want to be, and not for the person we are.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Sometimes, the thing we want is right in front of us, and we’re the last ones to see it.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“The craziest thing about parenting must be that it’s this huge experiment and you have no idea whether it’s successful until, like, decades later.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“How many mistakes does it take before you’re bad? Does it start with a little white lie, and slowly progress to fraud . . . and worse? Does it matter if you do the wrong thing for the right reason?”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I wonder whether I'm single not because I haven't met the right person yet, but because I'm not the right person yet. The other night, I had the most terrifying thought: Who would I be a good match for? Like, I honestly can't imagine who that man is.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Forgiveness is so fucking freeing.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I should have been more offended. But I only have one emotion, and it’s hunger.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Me? I was obsessed with serial killers. More specifically, I was obsessed with the idea of female serial killers. Hear the phrase serial killer, and most of us probably picture a man. It’s not surprising—let’s be real, men are responsible for at least ninety-two percent of the evil in the world. For centuries, women have been socially programmed to be the nurturers, after all—the protectors, the emotional bridges—so when we hear of a woman who takes life instead of creating it, it’s instinctively shocking.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Is it weird that this roomful of straight men is fighting over Reid and not me?”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Men date younger women all the time and get a pat on the back. Why does dating a younger guy automatically make me a cougar?”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I wonder whether I’m single not because I haven’t met the right person yet, but because I’m not the right person yet.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“You’re honestly too good for me, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t want you anyway.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I’m lonely. I’m lonely because I don’t tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don’t figure it out on their own. Is it possible to be a highly functioning adult with a successful career, awesome friends and a lovely family, and still be a Level Five Hot Mess? I may be living proof.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Here tit is.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“My God, we are too young to be this old.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“You deserve good.

I’m sorry I ever let you believe otherwise.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I thought about getting a cat today. That’s a solid step into the commitment zone.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Like a hot Latin Dementor, Alex materializes at his side.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“And that was never his fault, even if it is his greatest failure.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Emotions are live wires, and mine are DOA.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I’d call you a douchebag, Ed, but that would imply you could actually get near a vagina.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Why are we always expected to share the picture of us with our boobs out on the beach, but dudes can share the candid one with their slobbery dog?”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I'm shitty at talking about personal stuff not only because I feel awkard talking about myself, but also because I don't like turning a conversation into a downer.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Your smile is weird," Ed says when I reach him. "Like you're farting."...."Do you want to sit inside or outside?" He points to my stomach. "Maybe outside, better air circulation?”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“because I got to have something with Reid that I’ve never had with anyone before, and I fell in love with him.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Listen, if twenty-one-year-old college me had had the chance to bang beautiful twenty-eight-year-old you, I’d have done it in a hot second.” Wait, what?”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“Is it weird to anyone that this roomful of straight men is fighting over Reid and not me?” I ask. Chris, Alex, and Ed seem to give this fair consideration before answering “No” in unison.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I minimize the chat window, catching only a gif Millie sent of Kristen Bell pretending her middle finger is a tube of lipstick, and peek at my calendar.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“I wasn’t thinking as I pulled him through the door and down the hall. All I could do was feel—feel how right we were together, and an overwhelming relief that he was here, and that I didn’t want him to leave.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand