Breanne

“She taught me that men will use you unless you use them first, that sometimes men must be punished because women are in important pain from the moment they are born until the moment they die.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“But I’m very happy that I met you. And even knowing that you’re alive, I feel like my life will be a lot better. Just being able to remember – being with you, and having such a nice experience together.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“All because one day she was in the right café. I used to think of that when I went to cafés. That maybe it would be the right day to be in the right café. Not that I was pretty enough to be a model or a movie star. But I thought maybe something would happen if I made myself available to it. So I went out as much as possible, putting myself in public, putting myself out where I could be found.”
― Lauren Elkin, Scaffolding