Melissa Bank
Melissa Bank
Melissa Bankis an American author. She has published two books, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a volume of short stories, and The Wonder Spot, a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
dream want feels
You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
doubt perfectly-natural judgment
It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.
being-yourself boys ideas
Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.
letting-go tired mean
You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.
beautiful drinking gasoline
Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.
hate voice advice
Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.
littles fit shrinks
You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
real love-is disbelief
I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.
men facts proof
He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.
scare way wonder
It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.
havens
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
nice animal predator
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
hate teeth feels
I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
book character mean
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.