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#1

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

#2

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

tags: attention, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh, proud

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#3

“I was under the impression that I loved him, simply because I never knew what he was thinking.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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#4

“If I were to describe a typical New York conversation it would be two people waiting for their turn to talk.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

tags: new-york-city

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#5

“Seeing someone you used to love is like visiting a house you once lived in.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

tags: breakup

18 likes

#6

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

tags: friendship, love, women

765 likes

#7

“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

330 likes

#8

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#9

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#10

“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#11

“Some men need to witness female anger to believe in that woman's love. Some women need to get angry to experience that love.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

tags: anger, love

41 likes

#12

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

9579 likes

#13

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

1385 likes

#14

“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#15

“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#16

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar

740 likes

#17

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: diaries, importance, omissions, truth

509 likes

#18

“It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: darkness, past

50 likes

#19

“There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: relatable-quotes

32 likes

#20

“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

tags: discretionary-income, doing-ok, getting-by, income, life, regular-schedule, regularity, schedule

20 likes

#21

“Another self was needed to move into the future.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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#22

“Love with all your heart and show kindness in all your actions.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

tags: life, love

207 likes

#23

“how can we appreciate the sun every morning if we don’t live through the dark?”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

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#24

“Life's too short to hide who you are because you're afraid of getting hurt.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

tags: billionaire, creative, dream

149 likes

#25

“You better have a massive dick to back up that attitude or else people will be mighty disappointed.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

79 likes

#26

“You’ll learn that the best rewards come with the biggest consequences. Because nothing that great is given for free.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

49 likes

#27

“Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

tags: abuse, hurt, power, power-dynamics

85 likes

#28

“I remember finding him very attractive at the time; though any man who pays attention to you, at that age, can transform from frog to prince in the time it takes to tell you he likes your hair.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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#29

“and I refuse to ask for sex. They ask me. They beg. That’s how it works.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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#30

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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