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The Perfect Marriage (Perfect, #1)

by Jeneva Rose (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 21, 2023 06:44AM

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“Just because she sends you guilt doesn’t mean you have to accept delivery.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

tags: distance, friendship, love, object, pure-love, relationships, simone-weil, subject

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“Losing somebody you love is such a profoundly lonely experience, something only you endure in your own particular way.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

tags: gender-inequality

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“I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

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