“Being treated nicely felt wrong somehow, as if we were acting out what a relationship should be rather than being in it. For men who hate women, an admission like this one is proof that see, women want a guy who treats them like shit but that's not true either. What is closer to the truth is that when confronted with the love you deserve, it is easier to mock it than accept it.”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
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