Exes Quotes

“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?”
― Bill Maher

“Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.”
― Stephan Labossiere

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.”
― Kimberly Novosel, Loved

“Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?"
"And you say there's no afterlife.”
― John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. By explaining one’s decision to leave the relationship with love and respect and emotional transparency. By being honest without being brutal. By expressing gratitude for what was given. By taking responsibility for mistakes and attempting to make amends. By acknowledging that one’s decision has caused another human being to suffer. By suffering because of that. By having the guts to stand by one’s partner even while one is leaving. By talking it all the way through and by listening. By honoring what once was. By bearing witness to the undoing and salvaging what one can. By being a friend, even if an actual friendship is impossible. By having good manners. By considering how one might feel if the tables were turned. By going out of one’s way to minimize hurt and humiliation. By trusting that the most compassionate thing of all is to release those we don’t love hard enough or true enough or big enough or right. By believing we are all worthy of hard, true, big, right love. By remembering while letting go.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading 2

“Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Diane sometimes hears that Troy is an actuary. Sometimes she hears Troy is a florist. Sometimes she hears Troy is a cop, a toll collector, a professor, a musician, a stand-up comedian. Once, she heard a terrible rumor he became a librarian but she could not imagine Troy becoming the darkest of evil beasts no matter what he had done to her. Is it even possible for a human to become a librarian?”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Oftentimes someone leaves their partner who is comparable to the sun for someone else who is comparable to a spark.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your enemies don't have a chance when your spirit knows how to run, swim and fly beyond the evil they carry within them.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you enter your next relationship, you become the person you split up with.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“The current girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, or husband is often an utterly unsuccessful attempt to stop missing or loving the previous one.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whatever happens, whatever her final words are to me, I won't turn into one of those pricks who badmouth their exes out of boredom and bitterness. I'll cherish the time we had together. That's what's up. You know damn well it was a great time, stop the faking.”
― Caspar Vega, The Eclectic Prince

“I’d either fallen out of love with him or he’d bored the love out of me.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Gamble

“She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste. She had stuck up for Spandau Ballet in just the same way at school, even after she had stopped liking them.”
― Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked

“You describe her as an Eden.
This rare, unknowable place. Distant.
And you tell me to wear her skin but I refuse.
I shift in my seat. Distant.

What is it about the men that go looking for old lovers in new women. And why is it that they always want you to touch them like she touched them. Wear her head like a show piece. Use her words as lipstick.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial and chest piercings. I am very fortunate to have just been schooled by someone who looks like they graduated from Care Bear Carnage University.”
― Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading

“In all probability there is someone out there that is almost exactly the same as the one you just lost, except they area a little bit taller, a little bit kinder, and a whole lot better in bed.”
― Atticus Poetry

“You won't get rid of him that easily. Troy will live a long and annoying life. People like him always do.”
― Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

“Some people are very happy despite their ex’s absence; some, because of it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is possible for your ex, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or your husband or wife, to no longer be your type.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I do," she said. "I don't want to forget what we had. Ever. In the past, we're perfectly preserved, best friends, in love forever. I like that." She looked at the ceiling. "Everything is moving so fast. Before long everyone we know will be scattered across the country, the world even. Our lives will look completely different to what they've always been so far." She put her hand on mine. "1 like having something that can't ever change. It's already happened.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Our past is a movie
I played in a loop
round and round,
we’re stuck in a pattern”
― Helena Natasha, Love, Spelled in Poetry

“How are you?"
"I'm coolioko," I nod, coughing once more. Not coolioko again, Harriet. "I mean, I'm ... fantastico." No. "Supastic." No. "I mean ... I'm OK and stuff.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek

“You texted Garcia for help?" Jack gritted out. "Garcia? Not me?"
"He has a gun."
"So do I."
"He's steady and reliable," I said. "He doesn't disappear for eight months. He doesn't go on business trips that require burner phones and secret codes. He doesn't refuse to tell me what he does for a living. I texted HELP and I knew he'd come. I wasn't sure about you."
"You don't think I would have come if you'd texted me for help?" Indignation laced Jack's tone.
"For all I knew, you were being tossed out a window in Rio, tortured by the Italian Mafia in Tuscany, or you were in the North Sea trapped in a Russian submarine."
"The Italian Mafia are based in Sicily," he corrected me. "Tuscany doesn't have the port access they need for the drug trade."
I folded my arms and sighed. "You missed the point entirely.”
― Sara Desai, 'Til Heist Do Us Part