The Bromance Book Club Quotes

“Don’t be ashamed for liking them. The backlash against the PSL is a perfect example of how toxic masculinity permeates even the most mundane things in life. If masses of women like something, our society automatically begins to mock them. Just like romance novels. If women like them, they must be a joke, right?”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“That’s why fiction resonates with people. It speaks to universal truths.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“You guys read romance novels?”
“We call them manuals.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Men are idiots. We complain that women are so mysterious and shit, and we never know what they want. We fuck up our relationships because we convince ourselves that it’s too hard to figure them out. But the real problem is with us. We think we’re not supposed to feel things and cry and express ourselves. We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“If a man wants to leave you, wave goodbye and lock the doors. You've got better things to do than chase a lost cause.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship. We read them to be more comfortable expressing ourselves and to look at things from their perspective.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“The man tugged on his suspenders. “Whatcha knockin’
down?”
“Patriarchal power structures.”
He blinked.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“We shouldn’t assume that women and girls don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. We don’t fear that men who read murder mysteries and thrillers are going to have a hard time not becoming serial killers, so why should we assume that a girl won’t know that she doesn’t have to change from a mermaid to human in order to find love just because of a movie?”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“First rule of book club? You don’t talk about book club.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“All spouses become strangers to each other at some point in a marriage,” Del said. “All human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace. Who knows how many people have gotten divorced simply because they failed to recognize that what they thought were insurmountable problems were actually just temporary phases?”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Book club isn't just about books.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“We are all the sum total of our experiences at any given time, and our reactions to things are shaped by them. Just like in romance novels. Whatever a character went through before the start of the book will eventually determine how they react to things that happen in the book.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“You don’t know my wife. It’s like a toy store for her. Our pen drawer at home is organized by color, and she has an entire basket full of washi tape.” “What’s washi tape?” “It’s, like, pretty tape for decorating. I don’t know. She loves that shit, though.” Del nodded. “Nessa has two full drawers of it. Sometimes I catch her staring at them with this weird smile on her face.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Modern romance novelists use the patriarchal society of old British aristocracy to explore the gender-based limitations placed on women today in both the professional and personal spheres. That shit is feminist as fuck.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“He's asking if you cheated on her, slapnuts."
Gavin swiveled his head to glare at Del. "Is that what you think? You actually think I would cheat on her?"
[...]
"No," Del said. "But we have to ask. It's a rule. We don't help cheaters.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“He looked up with a smile that made Thea's heart swipe right.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Mack winked. “The sex scenes are also really fucking hot.”
Gavin dropped the book.
Mack and Wilson laughed and high-fived. “I loved that one,” Wilson said. “At least a BB Four.”
“Do I want to know what that means?” Gavin shuddered.
“It’s our rating system for how much sex is in it,” Wilson said.
“But what does BB stand for?”
The whole table spoke at once. “Book Boner.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Good. First rule of book club?” They finished in unison. “You don’t talk about book club.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Gavin stumbled to the toilet just as something the colour of bad decisions exploded from his mouth.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“It doesn’t matter. Because I didn’t marry baseball. I married Gavin, a man with more integrity than you could ever dream of having.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“He found her in the library.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Oh, she could get lost for days in here, Irena thought as she took in the towering shelves of the library. If only she could.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“No one is as loyal as a little sister.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Nothing on Earth is as strong as a woman who’s good and fed up.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“A lonely marriage is the worst kind of lonely there is”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Keep telling yourself that.” “I’ve never seen anything like this in the house.” Derek Wilson, a local businessman he recognized from his TV commercials, spoke up. “She have one of those e-reader things?” “Yeah. I mean, I don’t know. I think so.” “It’s full of romance novels. Trust us.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club