Exes Quotes
303 Exes quotes by 265 unique authors
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
— Jasper Fforde
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This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a…
— Graham Chapman
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I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing…
— Martin Amis
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I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition...
— Alan Moore
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my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp…
— E E Cummings
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What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?"…
— Joseph Heller
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Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we…
— Kate Atkinson
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It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.
— Charlaine Harris
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little…
— Walker Percy
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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from…
— Rick Moody
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The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a…
— Muriel Spark
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a…
— T.C. Boyle
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Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.
— Rob Thurman
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Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.
— James Patterson
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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and…
— John Green
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I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once…
— Grace Paley
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We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible…
— Lisa Lutz
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this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's…
— David Levithan
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Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
— Agatha Christie
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me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the…
— David Levithan
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Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why…
— Richard Ford
Who Wrote These Exes Quotes
265 authors contributed a total of 303 Exes Quotes, led by these top contributors: