Sara Dittrich

“We pretend to want things we don’t want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“The problem, she’s starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“He makes me feel loved and respected for myself—not for what I can do for him and not for who he wants me to be. It is a different sort of love and admiration than Winston has for me. And I feel a new person under his gaze.”
― Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine

“solipsism.”
― Mary Stone, Winter's Web