“Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you've had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again and you look for those first signs of trouble?”
“Okay. Settle. She's just a girl. Just a girl. She wants to keep it casual, which is why she's in my bed right now. But that's casual. That's what casual people do. That's fine. That's great.”Tagged: Girls, casual, Dating
“Why is it pretty girls think they can treat people like crap and get away with it?”Tagged: Heartbreak, Girls, Pretty Girls
“Tom: 'It's off.' McKenzie: 'What?' Tom: 'Me and Summer.' McKenzie: 'Was it ever on?' Tom: 'No, but it could've been, in a world where good things happen to me.' Paul: 'Yeah, well, that's not really where we live.'”Tagged: Relationships, Dating, humor, crushes, Breakups
“Paul: 'So what are you exactly?' Tom: 'I don't know.' Paul: 'Are you her boyfriend?' Tom: 'It's not that simple.' McKenzie: 'Sure, it is.' Tom: 'What, like, are we going steady? Come on, guys. You know, we're-we're adults. We know how we feel. We don't need to put labels on it. I mean, "boyfriend,"…”Tagged: Relationships, Dating, humor
“McKenzie: 'Hey, maybe you should write a book.' Tom: 'What?' McKenzie: 'Well, you know, Henry Miller said the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.' Tom: 'That guy had a lot more sex than me.'”Tagged: Literature, breakup, Women, Heartbreak, Sex
“Tom [Starts to take a drink of champagne]: 'That was actually my nickname in college. They called me "Perfectly Adequate" Hansen.' Summer: 'They used to call me "Anal Girl."' [Tom nearly gags on his drink] Summer: '...I was very neat and... organized.'”Tagged: humor, College, Nicknames
“Summer: 'We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now.' Tom: 'Summer, Sid stabbed Nancy, seven times with a kitchen knife, I mean we have some disagreements but I hardly think I'm Sid Vicious.' Summer: 'No, I'm Sid.' Tom: 'Oh, so I'm Nancy...?'”Tagged: Funny, humor, Dating, Breakups, Fight
“Partygoer: 'So Tom, what is it that you do?' Tom: 'I, uh, I write greeting cards.' Summer: 'Tom could be a really great architect if he wanted to be.' Partygoer: 'That's unusual, I mean, what made you go from one to the other?' Tom: 'I guess I just figured, why make something disposable like a…”Tagged: Funny, humor, Dating
“Summer: 'I named my cat after Springsteen.' Tom: 'No kidding. What was his name?' Summer: '...Bruce.' Tom: 'Oh... That makes sense.'”Tagged: humor, Pets, Date
“I hate her crooked teeth. I hate her 1960s haircut. I hate her knobby knees. I hate her cockroach-shaped splotch on her neck. I hate the way she smacks her lips before she talks. I hate the way she sounds when she laughs.”Tagged: Heartbreak
“It's official. I'm in love with Summer. I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps.”Tagged: Love, Dating, In love
“Summer: 'We're just fr—' Tom: 'No! Don't pull that with me! This is not how you treat your friend! Kissing in the copy room? Holding hands in IKEA? Shower sex? Come on! Friends my balls!'”Tagged: Love, Dating, Friends
“Tom: 'What happens if you fall in love?' Summer: 'Well, you don't believe that, do you?' Tom: 'It's love. It's not Santa Claus.'”Tagged: Love, Dating
“Narrator: 'As he listened, Tom began to realize that these stories weren't routinely told. These were stories one had to earn. He could feel the wall coming down. He wondered if anyone else had made it this far. Which is why the next six words changed everything.' Summer: 'I've never told anybody…”Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Stories, Secrets
“People buy cards 'cause they can't say how they feel or they're afraid too. We provide the service that lets them off the hook. You know what? I say to hell with it. Let's level with America. At least let them speak for themselves! Right? I mean, look! What-What is this? What does it say?…”Tagged: cards, Feelings, humor
“Summer: 'Well, you know, I guess it's 'cause I was sitting in a deli and reading Dorian Gray and a guy comes up to me and asks me about it and... now he's my husband.' Tom: 'Yeah. And... So?' Summer: 'So, what if I'd gone to the movies? What if I had gone somewhere else for lunch? What if I'd gotten…”Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Dating
“Tom: 'Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just... I need some consistency.' Summer: 'I know.' Tom: 'I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently.' Summer: 'And I can't give you that. Nobody can.'”Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Dating, Labels