Marta Martinsone

“I learned that being female is as prefab, thoughtless, soulless and abjectly capitalist as a Big Mac.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you right before you drop the final inch, so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a diner like purgatory instead, waiting and hoping, and taking orders.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“You can't ask someone to help you without letting them know you're different than advertised, that you've been thinking and feeling strange things this whole time. That you're uglier, weaker, more annoying, more basic, less interesting than promised. Without letting on that your feelings are easily hurt, and that you are boring, just like everyone else. Once you expose yourself as insecure it's easy to feel resentment if you're not immediately put back at ease.

If there's even a flicker, a tiny recognition of your bad qualities, the resentment kicks in, the deal is broken, and suddenly you're both angry strangers, spending hours alone in a room together and completely unsure why.”
― Halle Butler, The New Me

“Ja tu salaidīsi visu dēlī, Džūd, ja turpināsi melot cilvēkam, kurš tevi mīl no visas sirds un vienmēr ir pieņēmis tevi tādu, kāds esi, tu varēsi vainot tikai sevi. Tā būs tava vaina: ne jau tavas būtības, pārciestās pagātnes, slimību vai priekšstata par savu ārieni dēļ, bet tāpēc, ka tu uzvedies šādi un neuzticies Vilemam pietiekami, lai runātu ar viņu un izturētos pret viņu ar tādu pašu labvēlību un ticību, ar kādu viņš vienmēr, vienmēr ir izturējies pret tevi.

Jā, tu domā, ka sargā viņu, taču tā nav. Tu esi savtīgs. Tu esi savtīgs, stūrgalvīgs un lepns, un sabojāsi vislabāko, kas ar tevi jebkad noticis.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life