Terry McMillan Quotes

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me!” The change in his features also caught me by surprise. His voice filled the room. So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian. He strode toward me, hand clasped over his chest. “I. Loved. You. And you used me the whole time.

Eddie's up there. He's lyin' to somebody, he's cheatin' somebody, and he's stolen all of our hearts.

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

It was hard to get away from all of the people that I thought had my best interest at heart, and they really didn't.

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absoluteky betray me.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.