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“I’m sorry, he said. I’m just finding you kind of hostile. You’re interpreting your failure to hurt me as hostility on my part, I said. That’s interesting.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“You underestimate your own power so you don’t have to blame yourself for treating other people badly. You tell yourself stories about it. Oh well, Bobbi’s rich, Nick’s a man, I can’t hurt these people. If anything they’re out to hurt me and I’m defending myself.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Bobbi could be abrasive and unrestrained in a way that made people uncomfortable,”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I wasn’t used to being attacked like this and it was frightening. I thought of myself as an independent person, so independent that the opinions of others were irrelevant to me. Now I was afraid that Nick was right. I isolated myself from criticism so I could behave badly without losing my sense of righteousness.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“I was going through a second upbringing: learning a new set of assumptions, and feigning a greater level of understanding than I really possessed.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
Holidazed Book Club
— 42 members
— last activity Apr 02, 2025 04:12AM
Welcome! Our book club offers a curated collection of atypical holiday reading to ward off seasonal attacks of materialism and existential angst. Est. ...more
Spooky And Cozy Book Club
— 42 members
— last activity Apr 08, 2026 06:25PM
A place to cozy up and read spooky and thriller books all year long! I have been a fan of spooky and thrillers all my life, so I wanted to start a gro ...more
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