B. Delores Max > Quotes

“Nothing like rejection to make what is wholly yours seem sweet and right.”
― B. Delores Max, Dumped

“The reason that we feel jealous is that we feel abandoned. This is absurd, because I am a grown-up person capable of looking after myself. I cannot, literally, be abandoned.”
― B. Delores Max, Dumped

“She would try then not to think too strenuously about her whole life. She would try to live one day at a time, like an alcoholic – drink, don’t drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.”
― B. Delores Max, Dumped

“The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other – I with words, Hugh with silence – for being each other.”
― B. Delores Max, Dumped

“There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went ‘what?’ Or worse, feeling interrupted and tires, ‘wha-?’ It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn’t been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it.”
― B. Delores Max, Dumped