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The Guy Not Taken Quotes

The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner

The Guy Not Taken Quotes
"I loved being pregnant. I loved being a mother."
"Not everyone needs to go to college. Not everyone’s like you."
"You could save him a lot of trouble if you’d just tell us how to reach him, honey."
"I don’t need this crap. I don’t need this job. I quit."
"You don’t have to live here with... I’m out of here."
"I’m not staying with Mother and her boy toy."
"I’d like to say a few words, if I might."
"I wonder what happened? I got hurt! I wanted to say."
"Love is like an escalator. Or one of those moving walkways at the airport."
"I guess if this doesn’t work out, we can always get divorced."
"My sister Josie is loyal. She would do anything in the world to help the people she loves, even if it’s at her own expense."
"I’m only telling you things you need to know," she said.
I don’t want to start off by saying that it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard," Namita said, adjusting herself on her bar stool and smoothing her tight wool pants. "But it is. Seriously, it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
"He’s marrying a woman who registered for a Health-O-Meter food scale," Marlie reported to her best friend Gwen.
"Which is why I’m not selling," Jess said. "We’re just testing the waters."
"You’re in love with your real estate man," said Namita.
"She’s just happy that she’ll be somewhere warm," her husband teased, and put his arms around his wife’s shoulders.
"The excellence of a college is in direct proportion to the quality of its bagels. Good bagels, good school."
"I am not sure what you want in a husband. I’m not sure you know, either. But whatever it is, whatever you need me to do or be, I will do it. I will try."
"I try so hard to keep Joe safe. I worry about him; I worry all the time, and you just come waltzing up here, and he doesn’t even know enough to make sure you’re who you say you are! You could be anyone! You could have done anything to him!"
"He’s not in the house. He’s out here in the driveway, and Harry’s here, too."
"I can’t believe this. You can’t believe they’d hold it against him that I refuse to wear this!"
"Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home. Her house wasn’t on fire, but her children were gone."
"He’s a good pet but a bad guard dog. Do you have a dog?"
"I’d keep it quiet if I were you. No sense in making trouble if you want your son to have a chance."
"Next time you could maybe make a donation to the Cancer Society. Or the library. We really need a new roof."
"He was a Westinghouse Science finalist."
"I should sit down with him, somewhere private, explain this reasonably."
"My sister and I are experiencing technical difficulties."
"I am being held hostage in my own home by teenage girls."