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“You’ll recognize those men, the ones inclined to their dark side, because they’ll expect you to carry their load. They’ll smother your anger with their pain, they’ll make you doubt yourself, and they’ll tell you they love you the whole time. Some do it big, like Ed, but most do it in quiet steps, like your father.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“There’s refuge in normalcy—if you can hold on to it.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Both women fall silent. Then Josie sighs and says, “Men.” And there it is, the point which it all boils down to eventually. The point where there are no words, no theories, no explanations for behaviors that baffle and infuriate and hurt. Just that. Men.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True