Karen Sudom

“One of the great traps of the narcissistic relationship is that the narcissistic folks actually believe they are nice people. They really do. It’s part of their system of delusional grandiosity, self-righteousness, and moral rectitude.”
― Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

“It was the one where she walked around in her skin and her bones for the rest of her life but her body was never recovered. You know the one.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

“I thought of a friend in La who'd said recently of her own daughter, "It feels wrong to give her all this happiness and confidence when we know what is coming. Seventh grade is going to hit like a wall. It feels like fattening a pig for slaughter." But what was the alternative? Starving the pig?”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You

“In some ways, grieving the living is far more difficult than grieving the dead.”
― Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People