Bree Lang

“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah