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“It didn’t occur to me that what I wanted from S was the same thing that my mother craved from me: to have someone live in her pain with her.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants, and when it does not get it, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your very self? What is going to happen to us, Blue?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“He’s a broken man, but he isn’t broken because of me. He was broken before he met me. Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I know that embracing anger means relinquishing that control, that assessment, that distance from myself, but I am desperate for control. I would rather hurt myself--metaphorically stab myself--than let anyone else hold the knife.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body