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“For these women, self-centered males probably stirred up uncertainty in a way they found exciting. But was this actual excitement, or was it a shiver of childhood anxiety in response to a self-involved person who wanted to use them?”
― Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
― Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
“He meant to stay nearby with the McCoos, parents to “two little daughters, one a baby the other a girl of twelve.” Lodging there, he assumed, would allow him to “coach in French and fondle in Humbertish.”
― The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
― The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
“He had spent the previous year sharpening his observations of quotidian matters. He noted down all sorts of minutiae, the better to portray the American prepubescent girl at the heart of his novel with greater accuracy. Nabokov recorded heights and weights, average age of first menstruation, attitude changes, even the “proper method of inserting an enema tip into a rectum.”
― The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
― The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
Morgan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Morgan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,380 books
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29 friends
776 books
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23 friends
293 books
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43 friends
400 books
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9 friends
286 books
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15 friends
86 books
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48 friends
110 books
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44 friends
1,365 books
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104 friends
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