Maureen Johnson Quotes

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction

Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.

All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed

I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh... I guess I said something, and, uh... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she..." Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it."

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.

I love you, Kitten. Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back. Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away.

a real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy

No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.