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“I don’t want to be work. I don’t want you to feel that I’m work.”
“Somewhere along the way your wires got crossed. Your brain decided that you’re not worth people’s time and effort, and that if you ask for anything, they won’t just say no, they’ll also leave you. That’s not how love works, Elsie.”
― Love, Theoretically
“Somewhere along the way your wires got crossed. Your brain decided that you’re not worth people’s time and effort, and that if you ask for anything, they won’t just say no, they’ll also leave you. That’s not how love works, Elsie.”
― Love, Theoretically
“Bold of you to assume that the real me is my best hand.”
“Foolish of you to think it isn’t.”
― Love, Theoretically
“Foolish of you to think it isn’t.”
― Love, Theoretically
“I often feel like I can be allowed to play only if I follow the rules men made. And those rules? They downright suck.”
― Love, Theoretically
― Love, Theoretically
“How much do we need to endure early in order to justify feeling messed up later?”
― Ambition Monster: A Memoir
― Ambition Monster: A Memoir
“Above all else, overwork was a distraction that blotted out the dull, but ambient emotional discomfort that was always there, a feeling of unworthiness that I’ve been running from my entire life. Work made me feel like I was somebody other than the unlovable monster I was quite sure I was inside. It allowed me to feel that if I cosplayed long enough as a cool and confident professional, I could obliterate that monster for good.”
― Ambition Monster: A Memoir
― Ambition Monster: A Memoir
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