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“I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
― Asfixia
― Asfixia
“Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater” is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no real word for men who kill women. Is the word just “men”?”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, But aren’t you afraid you’re going to get lonely? Get?”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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