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#1

“Just remember that, although we were flawed, we were marvelous, too.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

#2

“May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human being.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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#3

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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#4

“The world had set me up to believe that it was women who went mad. It was simply women’s pain that manifested as madness.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

25 likes

#5

“Dreams are dangerous things, Louise. Especially when they depend on someone else.”
― Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

12 likes

#6

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10092 likes

#7

“Although madness in men is not the same as that in women: men use it against others; women turn it in on themselves.”
― Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

tags: women-empowerment, women-s-strength

19 likes

#8

“Truth to be told, whether free or incarcerated, women were not safe anywhere. Since the dawn of time, they had been the victims of decisions that were taken without their consent.”
― Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

19 likes

#9

“Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

74 likes

#10

“Money is wasted on the rich.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

48 likes

#11

“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

20 likes

#12

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135496 likes

#13

“The older the man, the more my specialty. I knew that when I met God one day it would go well.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

10 likes

#14

“There is no better invitation in the world than women laughing.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

8 likes

#15

“When men tell you they are pieces of shit, when they tell you they are scumbags, they do it because they subconsciously know that you are hooked. It hooks you more. They push you away to pull you in and the most terrible thing is they don’t even do it on purpose.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

8 likes

#16

“When two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: being-in-love, breaking-up, falling-in-love, falling-out-of-love, heartbreak, love, lovers

24 likes

#17

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

5642 likes

#18

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

tags: drama

235 likes

#19

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

172 likes

#20

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

tags: books, money, rich

148 likes

#21

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

91 likes

#22

“Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman." She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.”
― Edith Wharton

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#23

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: falsehood, family, friends, insincerity, kindness, loneliness, pretense

662 likes

#24

“Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

19 likes

#25

“We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

tags: betrayal, divorce, humans, infidelity, marriage, people, relationships

17 likes

#26

“starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

32 likes

#27

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn't live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

45 likes

#28

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

55 likes

#29

“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

65 likes

#30

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

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