Nikki Ecklund

“I moaned some more, not altogether fake, because I enjoyed hearing myself. But fake in the sense that I knew I was suddenly too self-conscious to be aroused.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“To be in love with someone means believing that to be in someone else's presence is the only means of being, completely, yourself.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Yes, it certainly seemed like the human instinct, to get high on someone else, an external entity who could make life more exciting and relieve you of your own self, your own life, even just for a moment. Maybe once that person became too real, too familiar, they could no longer get you high - no longer be a drug - and that was why you grew tired of them.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“Men could smell an opening and they could smell a closing.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces