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“I had traveled so far to see the world in a different light, but it somehow always looked the same.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“It’s ironic how the ones you care for most are the ones that are most easily able to crawl inside you and do damage.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“There was something both beautiful and terrifying about isolation. It made you feel important and insignificant at the same time.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“Love isn’t conditional,” Ruth said. “It’s not dependent on jumping through hoops to please someone—and always failing. You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them, Mariana. I know it’s hard to hear. It’s a kind of blindness—but unless you wake up and see clearly, it will persist throughout your whole life, affecting how you see yourself, and others too.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them,”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“she was still in love and didn’t know what to do with all this love of hers. There was so much of it, and it was so messy: leaking, spilling, tumbling out of her, like stuffing falling out of an old rag doll that was coming apart at the seams.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens