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“It seemed that as long as I wasn't actually having sex with a person, I could get off to them. But once they embraced me it was over.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“If I don't win," she said, her wet hair dripping onto the spaghetti straps of her slip, "will you still love me?" I thought she was joking until I looked directly into her eyes. "You could be a nobody living in a cardboard box, and I'd still love you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“My favourite tree was the Weeping Scholar Tree. I thought it must come from Japan. They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Everyone I loved is dead now. There's no one left to protect.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo