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“Part of what had drawn me to him in the first place was that he was so much like me. A good boy who could be very, very bad, who was lured just enough into badness—into drinking, drugs, and misadventures—but who never fully turned his back on his responsibilities.”
― Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“The love myth I bought into was human-made, fallible. A modern invention. I couldn’t see this. To me, love existed outside of time, space, or bank accounts. I believed in the idea of two lonely souls finding each other and finding completeness. Not exactly happily ever after—in fact, wasn’t a little tumult the mark of true love? It was more like desperately ever after.”
― Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“Because the bonds that feel closest in our lives were forged in chaos and caretaking, we don’t know how to access that inner truth that is meant to guide us through our lives, keep us out of danger, direct us toward well-being.”
― Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches