Alesha Levora

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts.”
― Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

“My ex-girlfriend Lisa once said that every woman wants the same thing in a relationship: to be adored.”
― Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album