Daria Snadowsky Quotes

“It's like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don't like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I might come across as desperate for affection or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!”

— Daria Snadowsky

“How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?”

— Daria Snadowsky

I do. I still love him so much. And I feel so worthless because he doesn't love me anymore.

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“You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“Pain was my tie to a past that a part of me wanted to hold on to. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing.”

— Daria Snadowsky

After a breakup there's a momentary relief that you're free again. But that's quickly eclipsed by all the good memories you had together and the realization that there won't be any more of them.

— Daria Snadowsky

It's so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

— Daria Snadowsky

“As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys.”

— Daria Snadowsky

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?

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“Why did I have to love him so much if we're not going to end up together?”

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If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control, and the sensation of your heart bursting in your throat. The distinction is that the ex is alive.

— Daria Snadowsky

There's something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air.

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I think how breakups can bring out the worst in the best people, and part of being upset is mouthing off crap you don't mean.

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“Amy is so correct that a good personality can make a guy better-looking.”

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It's so messed up how little control we have over whether we want somebody.

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“I'm positive I wouldn't consider having sex with Guy if I hadn't already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was ... but shouldn't I want that for every
time? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can't go back to "everything but." But now that I have done it, it doesn't seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me.”

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Whatever age you are when you're first burned is old enough to lose hope that you'll ever get excited about anybody else.

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“In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin.”

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“It's sick how you can be intimate with someone one minute and then be furious with that same person the next.”

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“In the beginning, I wanted his heart. Then I shifted focus to his body. I was never interested in only friendship.”

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“Blame your body. The whole biological purpose of existence is to mate, so from the time we hit puberty, our hormones are demanding us to couple up. Maybe it's basic instinct to feel inadequate if you're single."
"That's what sucks. There's so many more interesting things than guys, but guys are what we spend most of our time talking about."
"I think that's just the way it is, though. No matter what we do, it's always more special if there's a boyfriend to share it with."
"Or a best friend.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“Undressing him reminds me of trying to change a sleepy, uncooperative four-year-old into his pajamas.-Dom”

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“Did things get a lot hotter between you two? A little stove-top stuffing in the kitchen?-Amy”

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“How is it that human anatomy evolved so
that something as stupid-looking as a repetitive back-and-forth movement can generate the peak of physical ecstasy?”

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“Your love interest becomes the most important thing to you. And if the love is requited, it's the biggest high in the universe, and you'd be fine never being with anyone else. But if this person doesn't want you back, well, you
pretty much wish you were dead ... or that that person dies miserable.”

— Daria Snadowsky

Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is.

— Daria Snadowsky

“Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.”

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“I wasn't expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the
least he could've done was make the bed.”

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Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

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“But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.”

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I didn't realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy.

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Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.

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“A boy sees a girl topless for the first
time only once, and the anticipation of the big reveal is really exciting. I feel like I'm a present being unwrapped.”

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“But when I gave bl0w jobs to my ex, I secretly hated it. What's pleasant about sucking on a stiff, veiny appendage that spurts pee and sperm?”

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“The other big con is whether having sex could cause me to more than just like like Guy. But that could happen even if we don't sleep together. You don't even need to date a boy to dream about marrying him.”

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“So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?”

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“I can't be happy going out if it's not ... going anywhere.”

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“There's nothing like feeling like sh_t to kill your libido.”

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“In some ways therapists have it harder than surgeons, who can often correct the
issue with one operation. There's no quick fix for emotional trauma.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“For me, at least, feeling something, even something bad, is better than feeling nothing.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“In my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both.”

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“Now I'll be spending the next who-knows-how-many days waiting for Guy to call/text/IM/Facebook/e-mail me. Then, if he ever does, I'll devote who-knows-how-many hours to reading into every word and deliberating about how to respond so I come off as available but not clingy. We may call/text/IM/Facebook/e-mail back and forth for who-knows-how-much longer until we start hanging out, if we ever do. Meanwhile I'll keep scrutinizing his behavior for signs as to whether he wants me romantically or as just a friend, and my mood will yo-yo accordingly until he finally makes a move, if he ever does.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“I wonder how many more penises I'll have inside me in my lifetime.”

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“Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people.”

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“All I mean is that, hypothetically, why would we need to see anyone else? And as long as we're going out and happy, wouldn't marriage be the goal, even if it's a decade away? 'Cause if it's not, all this is pointless.”

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“That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy.”

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“That I don't feel upset by us really being over almost trivializes how special and intense our relationship once was.”

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The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing. So that I'm letting go of the pain means I'm also letting go of the love.

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When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.

— Daria Snadowsky