The True Love Experiment Quotes
"If you aren’t deep in a daydream about the hot bartender, then you have no good excuse for not reacting to what I just said."
"Life has ups and downs; happiness isn’t a constant or a given."
"I did see Kim, and she gave me homework."
"I’m not sure I even know what real love feels like."
"You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff kids tell me. Some of these parents are nuts."
"You’ve heard all their songs at least a hundred times, so you would be making an informed opinion."
"I’m amazed at the often limited capacity of emotional intelligence in adults."
"I watched porn the other night and there was barely a clench."
"You treat the things I love as if they’re silly or something to be indulged."
"Sometimes I’m skydiving into an ocean of Oreos. Last night it was beer."
"Tell me I’m not making a huge mistake doing this."
"You’re not. In fact, I wrote it on my list, don’t you know? ‘Fizzy does a crazy romance reality show when she’s thirty-seven and has the time of her life.’"
"His hair falls over his forehead; his eyes seem unbelievably bright for someone standing in the dark corner of a bookstore."
"His hot lumberjack vibe today is likely a one-off while his suits and Lego hair are at the cleaners."
"I don’t see Dad waxing poetic, telling jokes, doing all the heavy conversational lifting."
"Romance readers are my absolute favorite brand of human."
"I’m glad you took a break from flirting with my dad to study your show’s demographic."
"I think most men want someone who’s smart, loving, and kind. Open to adventure."
"I know what love looks like—and I’ve written it so many times—but I’ve never felt it myself."
"I want to stuff this happiness in a pie crust and eat it with ice cream."
"I get the strong sense that the types of directions Fizzy gives are the ones we warn our children not to blindly follow: trust me, sign here, eat this."
"My desire to find a partner crashed and burned entirely around the same time I was doing my DNADuo dating spree."
"I know I’ll be okay if I don’t write again. I know that the death of my writing wouldn’t be the death of me. But I miss that me."
"Truth is, you’ll never meet a book lover who hates the quiet."
"But what surprises me is that the silence has quieter thoughts, too."
"I love the big-sky serenity of a hike with my brother, Peter."
"I feel something with Connor that I don’t want to label quite yet, but it scares me to think I’d ever have to give it up."
"I used to be attracted to people all the time. I used to love sex. I liked that fun and adventurous side of me so much."
"You are so much more than your playful, sexy, adventurous author persona."
"We both go still, staring straight out at the surf while the echo of his words spirals around us."
"I am so drawn to him it feels magnetic."
"I am very skilled in the art of denial."
"We all choose to hydrate in our own way."
"Pants feelings? For someone who isn’t Connor?"
"I finally went for a run just to get away from every relative within fifty miles who showed up at my house this morning to talk about the show."
"As contestants, we all signed contracts that, among other things, expressly forbid us from fraternizing outside of the show."
"Does it give me an advantage with you that we frequent the same CVS?"
"I must say I would absolutely verb the adjective noun out of him."
"I don’t think I’ve met seven hundred people in my life."
"Love is an illusion and men are incapable of keeping their dicks in their pants."
"You’re the one who just stroked me and then said erecting."
"I’m starting to wonder if leaving this unbuttoned was an unfortunate oversight or happy accident."
"I think you should do something in return after I fastened those seven thousand tiny buttons."
"You don’t have to deal with it right this second, but you do have to deal with it."
"I want to kiss you for the rest of the weekend."
"I admit I have feelings for him," I repeat robotically, pacing my living room floor. "We proceed to have the best sex of my entire lifetime. For hours. Twice. Then he tells me his marriage ended because he cheated. So I bolted."
"Every regrettable, overreactive moment of my meltdown is imprinted in my brain like a bad, drunken tattoo."
"Fizzy, we are all dumb when we’re young. I mean, you must see the parallels here: I got pregnant because Alec and I had unprotected sex in a bathroom at a party. Connor messed up, but then he stepped up. He went to therapy; he moved here to be present."
"I want to be near him every second. If I eat something delicious, I want him there to take a bite. If I see something beautiful, I want to turn to him and point it out."
"He was trying to talk it out with you," she says over the steaming top of her mug.
"I’ve never felt that—that insatiable thing, you know? I want to be near him every second. If I eat something delicious, I want him there to take a bite. If I see something beautiful, I want to turn to him and point it out."
"I’m not averse to sharing a room, but I’m not sure I want to share it with him yet. It will be our decision once we get there."
"I have to do what’s best for me. And what I am is a writer. So even if every word in this doc is garbage, I’m not quitting."
"You look in the mirror and see all of the ways you are letting me down. I look at you and see everything I’ve ever wanted you to be. That admiration is where expectations come from, dai leu, not from disappointment."
"I’ve always loved kids, but this feeling is next level. It’s wild to have someone so tiny who belongs to me this way. I don’t want to mess it up."
"We fall quiet and it’s weird being with him all alone."
"You’re honestly one of the coolest people I’ve ever met."
"In the end, I must allow that maybe it’s for the best that we didn’t sleep together again."
"I have never, not once in my life, felt this way for anyone."
"I’m telling you I love you. I want what’s best for you, even if that isn’t me."
"We’re afraid of being vulnerable or rejected, we’re scared that we’re weird or say things that no one else thinks."
"A smart woman explained to me that you’re many thousands of times more likely to find your soulmate with a Base Match than ever get a Diamond Match."
"Technically, I get to choose who I’m taking."
"Every day of my life from this point forward, I will be able to sincerely say I love and cherish you with every fiber of my being."