Love & Pollination Quotes

“I wanted to believe that my first date had been burgled, that my second date’s babysitter had been rushed to hospital and that my third date had had a meteorite land on his roof because, if these things weren’t true, it meant my dates were running away from me. That there was something wrong with me.”
― Mari Jane Law, Love & Pollination

“I can’t explain about her as I might spontaneously combust from mortification and that won’t be fun for anyone here.’ As an afterthought, she added, ‘And if I weren’t to spontaneously combust, I’d have to go into deep hibernation, and no one would see me ever again.”
― Mari Jane Law, Love & Pollination

“I found out later he’d… been to bed with every available woman under the age of fifty,’ Perdita explained. Then she added, ‘But I might have been misinformed. He might not have had any cut-off point.”
― Mari Jane Law, Love & Pollination

“Next time,’ Gavin said, ‘let’s hope it’s with a man who appreciates the gift of virginity.”
― Mari Jane Law, Love & Pollination

“I’ve made two mistakes,’ Perdita said forlornly. ‘The first was to sleep with a man who doesn’t like virgins, the second to sleep with a man who does – after I’d slept with the man who doesn’t.”
― Mari Jane Law, Love & Pollination