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Can a book give you Stockholm Syndrome?

"Splendid as the waters that drop with resounding thunder from high ledges of rock, and plunge downwards into the blue depths of night, was the presence of love she dreamt, drawing into it every drop of the force of life, and dashing them all asunder in the superb catastrophe in which everything was surrendered, and nothing might be reclaimed."

The last time I read the lead up to a rape scene, at least it was over in <50 pages...267 is a bit much

And sometime it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would knew too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.

"What I feel is relief. It wasn't me."

Tube stop almost missed; a good sign