One More Thing Quotes

“If you love something, let it go.
If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basically, just drop everything, who cares.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“...slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Regret is just perfectionism plus time.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself, so that when you are in a relationship, the person will truly be compatible with the real you.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“People who knew me and sympathized with me were determined to set me up with the other people they sympathized with and were always surprised when I would turn down their offer of what they thought of as romantic charity. “What’s the harm?” they would ask me, truly surprised. The harm, besides those hours that actually do matter when you barely have one night off every couple of weeks, is the little mark you get on you every time you open up a door to a hope and then close it fast in disappointment. It leaves a nick, or a dent, and those nicks and dents are not invisible. I used to see them all the time.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intuitive to you and everyone else that in a perfect world it would simply be considered standard; but, in reality, in our flawed world, what should be considered standard is actually so rare that it has to be elevated to the level of “perfect.” This is the type of perfect that makes you and most other people think, “Why isn’t everything like this? Why is it so hard to find …” a black V-neck cotton sweater, or a casual non-chain restaurant with comfortable booths, etc.—“that is just exactly the way everyone knows something like this should be?” “Perfect,” we all say with relief when we finally find something like this that is exactly as it should be. “Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”
The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“You have infinite time here, and there are infinite things to do, but you still don’t end up doing much of it. You do what you love most, over and over.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it meant. Fair or not, true or not, love won.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Do you think why not is ultimately a better question than why? Why or why not?”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“There’s always going to be one more thing. Because that’s what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it’s infinite, it’s built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“All eyes are beautiful, I said, which is why it’s such an easy compliment.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out of nowhere and tried to steal her thing.

One of these days I'm gong to have to get a new thing, she thought to herself--but as quietly as she could, because she knew that if anyone caught her thinking this thought, her thing would be right over right then.

”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I know this sounds crazy to say after one encounter but I kind of fell for you pretty hard & it has been forever since I've connected to anyone like this & my heart is kind of broken in a million pieces.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it. Please. Please. Please!”

I said that I had something to say to her, which made her listen in a way that she didn’t when I simply said things without the preface. Even though the preface meant nothing, it calmed her, just as it calmed real people, for the same no-reason.

I told her what people tell people. That this was what it felt like when love was taken away—but that it wasn’t the truth, it was just a feeling. It would pass. It would take time.
She would recharge.

She didn’t believe me.

No one ever believes it, I said. That’s part of what the feeling is.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I could imagine being his mom and loving him a lot, if that makes sense.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Everything helped a little bit, at first; but nothing really helped.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“But nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“CHILD: “Why does carrot cake have the best icing?” MOTHER: “Because it needs the best icing.” Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“You meet a finite number of people in your life. It feels to you like it's infinite, but it's not. I think it's the biggest thing I can see that you can't.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale—a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his tormenters teased, it would not only live on in the record books, but would transcend sport itself, and be taught to children around the world in textbooks and bedtime stories for centuries; that hundreds of years from now, children who had never heard of a “tortoise” would learn that it was basically a fancy type of turtle from hearing about this very race—the hare retreated, understandably, into a substantial period of depression and self-doubt.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories