Melissa Bank

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would…

— Melissa Bank

“When he takes off his shirt, I see that his shoulders are narrow and his chest almost hairless and almost concave. For…

— Melissa Bank

The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits…

— Melissa Bank

“By late August, I’m on my second sublet, and I’ve been working as a copywriter long enough to know I’m not good…

— Melissa Bank

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

— Melissa Bank

“You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.”

— Melissa Bank

During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But…

— Melissa Bank

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

— Melissa Bank

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any…

— Melissa Bank

“You smell like a bar," he said. I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then,…

— Melissa Bank