“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I out on the highway this time of night?' I was miserable, and it all came to me: 'I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. I can't fall in love with this man, but it's just like a ring of fire.”
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“He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.”
― The Pull
― The Pull
“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”
― Safe Harbor
― Safe Harbor
“I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.”
― The Art of Seduction
― The Art of Seduction
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