Emma’s Reviews > Matchmaking for Psychopaths > Status Update

“ I’ve always thought that love was a conscious choice. People fit together because of their temperament, their likes and dislikes’s, and their goals. Looking at Aiden, I realized how wrong I’d been. I loved him in spite of all his flaws. I loved him so much that his flaws no longer seemed so wrong.”

“ Lots of people had terrible fathers. Having a monstrous mother was more difficult to comprehend.”

“all women, regardless of how cool, calm, and collected they felt internally, were at risk of falling into the trap of hysteria. Hysteria was another word for “feelings”, except that it applied specifically to feelings that men disliked.”

“ the thing about heartbreak is that it reveals the ways in which all tragedy is connected. I was wounded as a child, and those wounds, though long stitched shut, continued to impact the way that I moved through the world. Damaged tissue wasn’t the same as healthy skin.”

“ Men were constantly calling women crazy, hysterical, criticizing them for their outsized emotions; whereas men were described as psychopaths for their seeming lack of feelings, for the games that they played to woo sexual conquests. Little did they know that women were just as likely to be psychopaths as men; they were just better at masking it.”

“ the distance between a romantic comedy and a horror film was never as great as people wanted it to be.”