Quotes / On the Rebound

"When you said you were sad about Jason, and I suggested, 'Hey, find a rebound guy,' it's cause I thought it was some sort of schoolgirl crush, [...] Look, I gave you bad advice. Jason was clearly important to you, and real heartbreak doesn't have a simple cure. I mean, you will feel better after some time goes by. [...] The point is, to get through a real heartbreak, you kinda just have to sit with your feelings and mull it over and power through. And...you have to talk about it. Talking about your feelings is the worst. It's so much easier just to find a rebound guy and have sex about your feelings."

— Eleanor, The Good Place, "Derek"

"Use your bean, Uncle Fred. You know what you do when your girl gives you the push. You dash off and propose to another girl, just to show her she isn't the only onion in the stew."
Lord Ickenham nodded. It was many years since he had acted in the manner described, but he, too, had lived in Arcady.
"Ah, youth, youth!" he was saying to himself, and he shuddered a little as he recalled the fearful female down Greenwich Village way, all beads and bangles and matted hair, at whose sandalled feet he had laid his heart the second time Pongo's Aunt Jane had severed relations with him.

— Service with a Smile, by P. G. Wodehouse

"Some people call it the rebound, but I call it a yes."

— Tucker Folley, Danny Phantom

Morty: Dad, do you understand how serious Krootabulon soul-bonding is?
Jerry: Uh, gee, Morty, I don’t know. It’s got such a casual name. If you want to lecture anyone about commitment, start with your mom.
Summer: Oh, my God, Dad, is that what this is about? Are you rushing into a new thing to get back at Mom?
Jerry: Every weekend, you two have told me to move on.
Summer: Move on, like, "out of bed." Like, "stop using paper towels for toilet paper", not "move on into a sloppy rebound."

—Rick and Morty, "ABCs of Beth"

Just 'cause I'm coming over
Doesn't mean I'll be there when you wake up
'Cause coming over doesn't mean
That I'm over him

Just 'cause you are my bandaid
Doesn't mean I want you to stick around
'Cause rebounds get washed away
The next time it rains

'Cause I'm tripping, tripping on rocks
Cutting on my ankles where I know the blood stops
Blue, blue knees
Falling for the next man who breathes

I need a bandaid, recovery
Don't get too close, 'cause you're really nothing to me
You're just a bandaid on my knee
You're just a bandaid, recovery
I'll rip you off when I please

—Melanie Martinez, "Blue Knees"

"When a girl knows that a guy's a little vulnerable and into her, we become like an evil witch in an enchanted forest, and the guy becomes, like, the lost ingenue. Say your girlfriend broke up with you — let's say you were cheated on, you're a little wounded, you're sitting there, "I hope I find a girl..." And we, out of nowhere, are just like— [Wicked Witch voice] Hello. Apple?"

— Iliza Shlesinger: Freezing Hot

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