Katharina

“My husband has no name; he is my husband, he belongs to me.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“Each new person who enters into our life is an additional dilution of his attention, a dilution of him, and I’m horrified by this. The energy he expends toward others hurts me: it tells me that I am not enough for him.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“If asked ‘Why don’t men commit?’, you’ll say ‘They will, just not to you’; if asked ‘Why don’t women commit?’, you’ll say ‘Commit what, suicide?”
― Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

“I experienced pleasure like a future pain.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion