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“I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.”
― Lu Hsun, Selected Stories

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“He says, "C'mon, baby," and lies on top of you. You're not sure he'd listen if you said no one more time. And you're not sure you want to find out the answer. You're not sure you could bear it.
"OK, fine, if you have to," you say.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault.
And I believed him.
'Look what I do to these poor boys,' I thought. And yet also, 'Here is my value, my power.'
So when he dumped me – because he was bored with me, because he'd found someone else more exciting – I felt both a deep relief and a very real sense of failure.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo