“no reason was turning out to be a major theme in life. generally speaking, when real pain was involved, there was no reason. no one to hold accountable, no apology.
pain just was. it radiated with no narrative and no end.”
― All Fours
pain just was. it radiated with no narrative and no end.”
― All Fours
“A husband might be nothing but a bottomless pit of entitlement. You can throw all your love and energy and attention down into it and the hole will never fill. ”
― Liars
― Liars
“If she wants him sexually he names her slut; if she does not want him he rapes her and says she does; if she would rather study or paint he names her repressed and brags he can cure her pathological interests with the apocryphal “good fuck.”
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
― Pornography: Men Possessing Women
“But dying alone, cradled by the universe, continuous with the rest of its energy, wasn’t something I dreaded anymore. Worse things had already happened.”
― Liars
― Liars
“it is always the heart's desire that drives one insane”
― Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
― Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
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