Daria Snadowsky Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more,
which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It's such a misnomer that 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' have the word 'friend' in them."

"I don't know, Dom. It's screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can't at least stay friends
afterward.

"Spoken by a true love virgin. — Daria Snadowsky

Does he try to have intercourse with you?"
"Grandma!" I gasp. "Not that it's any of your business, but no!"
"Good. Remember, no ring, no ring-a-ding-ding. Because once you spread your legs for him, do you know where he'll race once he's done? He'll race to another woman, that's where. — Daria Snadowsky

I wonder how many more penises I'll have inside me in my lifetime. — Daria Snadowsky

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? — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

I go back to my desk, flip open my cell, and stare at the keypad. I want to hear his voice so badly, to be connected to him, to ask him why and how and what I can do to make it better. But you can't force someone to love you. — Daria Snadowsky

One of the pitfalls of having an ex-boyfriend is that people still pair you together in their memories, and sooner or later someone's bound to mention him. And now that it has happened ... I can't say I feel nothing. I don't think it's possible to get royally dumped by the only boy I've ever done it with, let alone loved, and then feel nothing when he's brought up in conversation. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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. — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people. — Daria Snadowsky

I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college - by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we'd be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell. — Daria Snadowsky

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

Nothing bonds people more than going through sh_t together, right? — Daria Snadowsky

There's nothing like feeling like sh_t to kill your libido. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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? — Daria Snadowsky

Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so masochistic.-Dom — Daria Snadowsky

Please don't hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving
you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would have
otherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.
Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter and
hopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made me
deluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you're always going to haunt me. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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. — 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

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

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? — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

I love where he and I stand right now. It's like we're on the brink, and everything's full of excitement and potential precisely because the heavy making out is still something to look forward to. I realize we can't remain PG-rated forever. I'm all too aware, though, how easy it is to let hooking up become the crux of a relationship. Then you forget how to just be together and why you should stay together. So for the meantime I'd like to take things slowly in order to prevent hooking up from ever getting too
important.
Amy would say I'm overreacting, but I'm just trying to learn from past mistakes. — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

I can barely feel my arms now, and my shoulders are sore, but I take deep breaths and keep going. Every few seconds I alternate hands and lick them. "Hand job" is such a misnomer for this full-body routine. It's like I'm a one-man band. — Daria Snadowsky

I remember another thing Cosmo said. It typically takes half the time you're dating a guy to fall out of love with him. My ex and I were together almost ten months before he admitted over the holidays that he'd fallen out of love with me, so by that measure I should've been cured weeks ago. But once you've anticipated spending forever with someone, I'm not convinced you can ever feel complete after being uncoupled. I think you just learn to live without the person. Like when someone dies, you don't stop loving them just because they're not around to love you back anymore. Breakups truly are a kind of death. — Daria Snadowsky

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

I just wouldn't want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both.
Maybe it's a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. — Daria Snadowsky

Amy is so correct that a good personality can make a guy better-looking. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

Why did I have to love him so much if we're not going to end up together? — Daria Snadowsky

You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts. — Daria Snadowsky

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

Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

I hate how it's so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person. — Daria Snadowsky

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on? — 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

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. — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that's not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends ... Or maybe I've had it wrong all along.
Since friendships usually outlast relationships, why shouldn't friends receive preferential treatment?
Because you don't sleep with your friends! — Daria Snadowsky

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

When did you stop caring for me? Certainly not before Thanksgiving. You certainly wouldn't accept a blow job from someone if you were thinking about breaking up with her. — Daria Snadowsky

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. — Daria Snadowsky

I realize that I'm far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy's, and I've seen his only twice! I guess that's to be expected, since girls can't really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing's hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there's also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy. — Daria Snadowsky

Back in high school, I never understood how Amy could enjoy getting with guys just for the short haul. In a way, though, making out like this is more enjoyable because there's no pressure for me to not do or say anything stupid. What's the worst that can happen if I do? So I'm freer to focus on what I'm feeling, not what he feels about me. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

I can't be happy going out if it's not ... going anywhere. — Daria Snadowsky

High school sweetheart is such an
innocuous-sounding term for something that can tear out your guts. — 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. — Daria Snadowsky

I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway. — Daria Snadowsky

For me, at least, feeling something, even something bad, is better than feeling nothing. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain - if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other. — Daria Snadowsky

Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote. — Daria Snadowsky