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“ if you had a fantasy of disappearing — or causing another person to “disappear”, where would be more inviting?”

« Certain words have the power to upset me ».

i didn’t have time 🥲 I’ll read next summer. Tho intriguing.

“We can be different for a while but we’ll never change what is true in our bones and brains.”

THE WEDDING “he loves me because— because I’m young and raw. I am not even that smart, I know. Just new. I make him newer. But I won’t be new forever”.

THE KEY “ I do know my shit. I just wish I didn’t have to keep proving it over and over again”.

GERALD “Nothing and no one is really alone. We have to stop thinking that way. We are all infinitely connected, all part of the same structure”.

OMENS “ they wanted more from me […] they wanted devotion, and I wasn’t ready to give that”.

« But the hole in her chest was never filled. And, with every passing day, it grew ».

“I knew what it was to be her age and have a crush on an older man. Even knowing the impossibility of anything happening, the jealousy was hard to quell”.

"It was the first time I realized how loud silence could be."

“I need your help, baby”

“Do you know what’s missing today? Graciousness. It’s been replaced, I’m afraid, by greed.”

"She knew she was far over her budget, but she could not seem to stop herslef" (p.134).

" I hope I am not offending you".

“The terrible blame for being a certain kind of woman”

“I thought if not for me than for your own dignity”

“Humiliation can make you feel alive, it can make you come alive”

“I’ve been the most myself in theses moments of shame”

“Do you really mean stop?”

“Even a mouse in a trap would self-amputate rather than remain stock”

“That’s all I want now. The time to be past until he’s back with me. And then my real life begins again”

« His hands went from her face suddenly to her throat »

“ carried his own private hell with him.”

“was never sure whether they expected her to go to bed with them because they had bought her dinner […]. There were times where she was strongly tempted to say Yes […]. But she needed more in her bed than a warm body that talked.”

“He was a titan, but his name was known only in the circles where it mattered. He preferred to remain in the background and use his considerable influence to affect the outcome of legislation, high government appointments, and national politics”