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“It had been so much effort, telling myself and making myself believe that coming back from a honeymoon is when marriages start, not when they end.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Right now, what I most want to do is write a book, but I know I will never be celebrated for doing so in the same way I would be for having a child.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love