Melissa Bank Quotes

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• During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

  Melissa Bank

  Inspirational, Distance, Cancer

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• I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

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  Real, Love Is, Disbelief

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin

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• It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

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  Doubt, Perfectly Natural, Judgment

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.86, Penguin

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• It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

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  Simple, Feelings, Scare

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.323, Penguin

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• Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

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  Beautiful, Drinking, Gasoline

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.145, Penguin

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• The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

  Melissa Bank

  Havens

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• The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Couple

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.69, Penguin

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• She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

  Melissa Bank

  Lost, Felt, Seems

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.34, Penguin

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• We are all children until our fathers die.

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  Children, Father, Dies

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.134, Penguin

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• I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

  Melissa Bank

  Hate, Teeth, Feels

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.153, Penguin

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• He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

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  Mouths, Shapes, Made

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.136, Penguin

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• It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

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  Scare, Way, Wonder

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.51, Penguin

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• i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

  Melissa Bank

  Giving, Want, Strange

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.205, Penguin

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• I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

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  Real, Goal, Maps

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• Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

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  Reading, Writing, Perfect

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• You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

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  Forgiving, Goes On, Want

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.49, Penguin

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• He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.

  Melissa Bank

  Mean, Kissing, Thinking

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• Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

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  Teacher, College, Thinking

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• You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

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  Letting Go, Tired, Mean

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.151, Penguin

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• Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

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  Fun, Creative, Mind

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• Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

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  Book, Character, Mean

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• You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

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  Littles, Fit, Shrinks

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.57, Penguin

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• Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

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  Nice, Animal, Predator

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.38, Penguin

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• Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

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  Being Yourself, Boys, Ideas

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.162, Penguin

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• In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Melissa Bank (2005). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.115, Penguin UK

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