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“Her gaze turned distant. 'Have you ever heard of the arsenic eaters?'
Alex blinked, confused. 'No?'
'They would ingest a little bit of arsenic every day. It made their skin clear and their eyes bright and they felt wonderful. And all the while they were just drinking poison.' When Mira turned her eyes back to Alex, they were sharper and steadier than Alex ever remembered them being, free of the usual determined cheer. 'That's what being with your father was like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“...one of those unfortunate women who did not find nice men interesting. She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“And just as I'm about to lay on the Yi-Wang-Smooth, I see Lay #1 and Lay #3 show up to our table and take the two empty seats nearby.

From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“This was getting uglier by the minute, I thought. There really was no easy escape, since we were sitting far from the exit and the waiters knew me from prior dinner dates with Ashley and I hadn't paid the tab yet.

From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Like a driver who has lost control of his vechicle, I was bracing for the impending crash."

From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Molly wondered this: Could the size of man’s soul be small? She marveled that she would ask herself this question, for the obvious answer was yes. After all, if John’s was infinitely large, then his polar opposite must also surely exist. Her ex-husband’s soul was very small indeed. He was forever spinning his wheels to enlarge his soul, to fill its emptiness, with things. The luxury car, the large house, the high-paying but unimaginative job, the respect of people he didn’t even like. Like so many men, he needed a boy’s toy box of things to feel whole. John was the opposite. He didn’t need anything to feel whole besides a hammock, a beer, and her.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her then-boyfriend was going to drag Archie away, suspend him naked from meat hooks and try to hack him up with an ax?
Hadn't everyone had a bad boyfriend at some point?
Pearl had made some bonehead choices, but she had a good heart.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Ruining the life of little innocent girls goes against my principles, my dear Snow White.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Two Months and Three Days

“Having an unresolved Bad Boyfriend issue is like carrying around credit card debt . . . which can still show up and wreck your rating.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times