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“It was James who had an ego the size of a lake but a heart to match it.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world fawned over. Facing the reality of the dynamics at play would have meant admitting how limited my power really was—how limited any woman’s power is when she survives and even succeeds in the world as a thing to be looked at.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“He doesn’t though. He isn’t. Falling apart that is.
Falling implies some sort of speed and destination.
If anything, Regulus is rotting.”
― MesserMoon, Choices

“I never worked out how to be relied upon and also free.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations