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  • #1
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #2
    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
    Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • #3
    “I was under the impression that I loved him, simply because I never knew what he was thinking.”
    Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

  • #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

  • #5
    “Seeing someone you used to love is like visiting a house you once lived in.”
    Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

  • #6
    Dolly Alderton
    “Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
    Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

  • #7
    Dolly Alderton
    “I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
    Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

  • #8
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “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

  • #9
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “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

  • #10
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “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

  • #11
    Chelsea G. Summers
    “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

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “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

  • #18
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

  • #19
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

  • #20
    Ling  Ma
    “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

  • #21
    Ling  Ma
    “Another self was needed to move into the future.”
    Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

  • #22
    Lauren Asher
    “Love with all your heart and show kindness in all your actions.”
    Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

  • #23
    Lauren Asher
    “how can we appreciate the sun every morning if we don’t live through the dark?”
    Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

  • #24
    Lauren Asher
    “Life's too short to hide who you are because you're afraid of getting hurt.”
    Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

  • #25
    Lauren Asher
    “You better have a massive dick to back up that attitude or else people will be mighty disappointed.”
    Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

  • #26
    Lauren Asher
    “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

  • #27
    Eliza  Clark
    “Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?”
    Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

  • #28
    Eliza  Clark
    “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

  • #29
    Eliza  Clark
    “and I refuse to ask for sex. They ask me. They beg. That’s how it works.”
    Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “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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