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“A succession of my girlfriends told me how much they had always hated him, how he was not good enough for me. I threw my head back and laughed, agreed.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“how easy it was to imagine three of me fitting inside him: one of me curled around his brain, another around his heart, the third turned to liquid and sliding through his veins.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I thought then that that was all those times were: relief. They were always relief from the absence of what I feared, the ordinary, truly daily things: the coldness, and the ignorance, and the disdain, and the hatred.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“I wonder now at my desperation to perform domestic acts for him. I wanted more than anything to present him with the products of my labour, for him to see how invested I was in maintaining our life – and how joyfully invested”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation