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“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
― Coco Chanel

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”
― Alice James, Alice James, her brothers--her journal

“It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!”
― Alice James

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered”
― Alice James

“I wanted to say, My life is full. I chose this life because it's a constant assault of color and taste and light and it's raw and ugly and fast and it's mine. And you'll never understand. Until you live it, you don't know.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad