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“I wasn't about to call it anything as crazy as love at first sight—I didn't believe in things like that but I knew that I was intrigued in an inexplicable,
unprecedented way.”

“Perhaps when Mother was my age, she was like me. Once she might have felt the same thrill that I do when sharing a cigarette with the girls or coming home late. Perhaps she has forgotten what it is to only get glimpses of independence. Those glimpses are everything to me. Feeling adult is everything to me. -Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Om tells his dients that a romantic partner mirrors how you feel about yourself. Stacy was a skinny mirror. He made me look-and feel —better than I actually looked or felt, which is why breaking his heart has probably given me seven years of bad luck. My other relationships: carnival mirrors, a different kind of distortion.” -Jen Beagin

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.” -Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“It is a very pretty beach, Were not really beach people, and obviously no one wants to see this in a bikini!'
She made a face of pure loathing and gestured at her perfectly ordinary body, which Madeline judged to be about the same size as her own.
"I don't see why not, said Madeline. She had no patience for this sort of talk. It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred.”

“sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth” -Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt.” -Clementine Ford

“In the process, she reminds us that our feet are very much planted on this earth.” -Caryn Rose

“‘You have the most inventive imagination I've ever seen in someone your age.'
Ricky could hear what Katie was saying but her head was filling with a strange noise that prevented her from believing the words.” -Diane Connel

“The first documented reference to what could be described as a condom dates back as far as 3000 BC, in a tale that describes King Minos of Crete reportedly using a goat bladder to protect his wife from 'serpents and scorpions' in his semen. By 1000 AD, Egyptian men purportedly wore coloured linen sheaths as condoms - each colour was used to distinguish status in their social hierarchy, naturally.”

“Only things that are imperfect, incomplete, and ephemeral can truly be beautiful, because only those things resemble the natural world.” -Hector Garcia, Ikigai P172

“Similarly, go fuck yourself is one of the more satisfying insults, though it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Who doesn’t want to go fuck themselves? Some of the best fucking of my life has been with myself.” -Melissa Febos, Sex and the Single Woman P150