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“I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“There was a love that had always existed between women. It would continue to exist. We were propagating that love. It was radiating out of my apartment windows, through the city, across the canyons, over the hills, and into the night sky.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“What would you name the cat?"
"Whatever you want.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I thought about how I used to watch my mother sleep sometimes, how innocent she looked with her hands tucked under the pillow. In those moments, I saw her as a little girl, and I felt that nothing was her fault—just a chain of fears and feelings passed down from generation to generation. In those moments I thought, You can show her how to love you better by being loving to her. But it was easier to be loving when the person was asleep.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed: A Novel

“The heart gets wounded—so what? I thought. I’d seen all the plays. I should have been prepared. Love goes. But what I hadn’t known was how good the love would feel when it was there, like a hymn moving through me all the time.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“In America, one of my professors said once that the best art comes from an unbearable life—if you live through it, that is.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“I came to the realization that every moment exists in perpetuity regardless of whether it’s remembered. What has happened has happened; it occupies that moment in time forever. I was an eleven-year-old girl lying in the grass one summer. I knew in that moment that was true and recognized that I would blaze through moments for the rest of my life, forgetting things, and becoming ages older, until I forgot everything—so I consoled myself by committing to remember that one moment.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.

I will not come out of this with nothing.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“You have friends now, a routine, a coffee shop where someone, as you saunter in, smiles and says, "The usual?”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“I don't know..." And then she added, almost as an afterthought, as she evaporated into nothingness, "Maybe I'll go to grad school.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“You had every intention of being depressed forever, but as it turns out, there's work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that? Instead, you survived - apparently, you both did - and things are shockingly okay.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

“I dream of a day when children can grow up in homes filled with love and security, where children's developing energies can be channeled to learning and serving rather than seeking the love they did not receive at home.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

“And I think about how loving someone is kind of like being president, in that it doesn't change you, not really. But it brings out more of the you that you already are.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“I had no idea how to be a mom, let alone my own mother. But what about daughterhood? Was it possible that I could be my own daughter? This seemed more doable. I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it. If I could not be my own mother—or at least not the kind of mother worth having—then maybe I could be my own daughter.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“I’d entered therapy hoping to alleviate the suffering related to both my food issues and my mother, but without having to make any actual life changes in either area.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“Every time my family argued, my initial response was to fantasize about moving far away and never speaking to any of them again. I thought about starting a new life on a new continent. By the time I was in my bed, waiting to fall asleep, I started to feel bad for everyone.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“You're being quiet again," she writes. "You'd tell me if you weren't doing okay, right?"
"Yes," I lie.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“What about holding hands in a movie theater? Can girls hold hands in a movie theater?”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“Even the usually reasonable, sane ones verbally degrade women—even the women they have feelings for.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“But he's got some issues."
"Well, that runs in your family doesn't it?”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I’ll have the sugar-free, fat-free cappuccino swirled with the sugar-free, fat-free cheesecake,” I said. “Medium.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“What do you want your life to be like when you're old?
"I want to live in a cottage," she said. "I want a perennial garden and fruit trees. I want to learn how to make bread, and how to do pottery. And I want a cat.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“I began moving from scale to scale, doing a kind of body dysmorphic waltz. 13.5 pounds. 14 pounds. 13.5 pounds. 13.5 pounds. 14.5 pounds. 13.5 pounds”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“Over the course of our sessions, I’ve written down some words you’ve used to describe your body,” she said, clearing her throat. “Amorphous. Out of control. Disgusting. Exploding. These kinds of words reveal to me a deep dysmorphia—”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“It’s strange people don’t like how their bodies look. It’s strange we waste any of our time concerning ourselves with how our skin drapes over our bones or how fat cultivates.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“She's thinner than I am, but that doesn't seem to matter. She thinks something is wrong with her stomach.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead