My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle Quotes ... Page 2

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"I wondered what I'd done to deserve her and after a number of minutes concluded that I'd done nothing whatsoever. She was in my life without reason. She was there in spite of myself. Good things could happen to not-so-bad people." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"I could love them and I could leave them and not care because, at last, I didn't give a damn about anyone but me." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"things have changed. things have moved on. I'm the same man she fell in love with and yet different." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"'as soon as I'd ended our relationship I knew I'd made the biggest mistake of my life.'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"'I wouldn't blame you if you hated me right now. Really, I have no right to be here. I gave up that right the moment I extinguished our love. But do you think that we could�.? Do you think that we'll ever�.?'" - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"nothing existed except me and what I could see." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"I once dreamed I could fly and, even now, can still remember what the city looked like from up in the sky and how the wind felt in my hair and against my skin. But when I woke up I couldn't fly." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"Time was always NOW, in big, bold, uppercase letters. T he future just wasn't my concern." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"I had no problem with being left alone with strange adults and a bunch of children I didn't know. If my parents were trying to give me a head start on the advancement of my social skills, then they should have asked me and I could have told them that I got along with everyone." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"nothing had any definition about it. Colors merged. It was like constantly being caught in the sort of cheesy soft-focus normally reserved for swooning heroines, all of the rough edges smoothed away, all the blemishes blurred out of existence. Real Life seemed far away." - My legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

"When we first started going out together i used to walk her home, and while we were kissing and hugging good-bye on her doorstep, my favorite thing to do was to concentrate my whole mind on capturing the Moment -- her smell, the taste of her mouth, the sensation of her body pressed against mine -- i wanted to photograph it and keep it forever. But it never worked." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"I think film as a medium is nowhere near as expressive as the novel." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"I don't really do emotional histrionics that often." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"I love you so much that when i think about how i feel about you my brain can't begin to comprehend it. It's exactly like infinity. I don't understand it, but those are the limitations of my love." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"Deep down, i always liked to believe that i knew things wouldn't work out between us. Nothing could have been that perfect unless it had its premiere on terrestrial television." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"The thing that swung it for me, the one thing that made me so sure, was our first kiss. It wiped away my fears and insecurities in an instant." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"'Am i your boyfriend?' is the kind of question a nine-year-old asks another nine-year-old. It had no place in a sophisticated relationship. I knew the rules -- i was meant to be cool and relaxed, laid-back and casual. At first maybe we'd 'see' each other (which meant that she'd still 'see' other people), then maybe we'd date (which would mean that she wouldn't see other people even though she might want to), and then finally we'd be boyfriend and girlfriend (by which time she wouldn't want to see other people because she'd be happy with me)." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"she looked me straight into my eyes and asked me if she was my girlfriend. I said, "Yes, you are my Legendary Girlfriend."" - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"The end of everything we had, everything we were and everything I'd hoped we'd be, also arrived with a kiss, one which i found myself reliving two or three times a day years later." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"There was no mistaking it -- it was a good-bye kiss. It was a 'This isn't working' kiss. It was a 'This is hurting me more than it's hurting you' kiss. All I could think was: This is the Last Kiss. She said that for a long time she'd felt that i wanted more from her than she had to give. She said i needed someone who could guarantee to be around forever. She said that, while she did love me, she didn't think that was enough anymore. She said that she was twenty-one and i was twenty-three and that we should both be living our lives to the full but instead we got stuck in a rut. She said that for a long time she'd had the feeling that we weren't going anywhere. I said nothing." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"There was no way on earth i was going to return her call because she, as far as i was concerned, was a first-rate nutter of the Fatal Attraction variety and i had no intention of playing Michael Douglas to her Glenn Close in her sordid little fantasy." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"Over the following years i fell in love with her several times but never felt compelled to tell her, there was no reason to -- she never seemed the slightest bit interested in being anything more than friends." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"I thought your motto was 'Think of the worst thing possible and multiply it by ten.'" - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"it had become my personal philosophy to look on the dark, half-empty, who's-nicked-my-silver-lining side of Life." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"I wasn't comforted. I wasn't happy. I was fed up." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"I wanted everything to be perfect straightaway, because the thought of it taking time and patience to learn how to control these animals made me feel sick." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"At moments like this, when loneliness seemed like my only friend, the only place safe to hide from the world at large was under the sheets." - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle

"'Names are irrelevant. They're just labels. I mean, how can you tell what a child should be called before they've even had a chance to do anything?'" - my legendary girlfriend by mike gayle