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“Where do the missing go, when they disappear? For surely the missing are not missing to themselves, only to others.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Babysitter

“Maybe we never actually run away. Maybe everywhere’s the same.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

“More than anything else, we're made of mistakes. But you know what? We always have a second chance.”
― William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

“What anyone knew of love began early and the lessons stayed with them a lifetime.”
― William Kent Krueger

“We are not ruined.”
― William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

“Funny, how a man can be a cad and all will laugh at him, but a woman’s indiscretion is an undertow.”
― Julia Fine

“We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“Once they put you in a role, you can abandon or explode it.”
― Julia Fine, Maddalena and the Dark

“When you whisper the name of the devil, he wakes from fiery depths to listen, but mostly to take.”
― Julia Fine, Maddalena and the Dark

“My arrows might fester in a wounded heart, spreading like an infection. Or perhaps love itself had been rotten from the start.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Rowan wasn’t always like this,” she told me. I guessed that he probably had been, but she hadn’t wanted to see. “But he’s like this now,” she finally said.”
― Alice Hoffman, Everything My Mother Taught Me

“A sad man, when all is said and done, sad and angry, though that does not excuse what he did or what he would go on to do.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Now she was expertly wielding a knife, not to thrust into her worthless husband's heart, but to serve him another slice of steak.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“Screw another woman, fine," she would say. "But take her out for dinner, hold her hand, tell her your hopes and dreams-then you've screwed me.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Atalanta had shown me bear tracks in the woods. A series of clawed prints, larger than my hand, leading away into the brush. The creature who had made them was long gone and could only be defined by the impressions it had left. Love was like that, noticeable only by its absence.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“He was not interesting enough to inspire her anger”
― Roxane Gay, Graceful Burdens

“I've lived with many alcoholic men over the years, and each has taught me that it is useless to worry, fruitless to ask why, suicide to try to help them.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Perhaps had I a Dr. Frye to confess this to, I might have uncovered something which would have brought me relief, a new perspective, but I never did. Anyway, I don’t trust those people who poke around sad people’s minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It’s not interesting. My mother was mean and that dog was nice. One doesn’t need a college degree.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I loved a crying man—a weakness which led me into countless affairs with whiners and depressives.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“There's nothing I detest more than men with happy childhoods.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I sincerely believed that if there were less of me, I would have fewer problems.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I learned the long way about love, tried every house on the block before I got it right. Now, finally, I live alone.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Will this child...will they...will they subsume me?”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“But it did not matter what I had done - it would never matter. Because, after all of it, all that mattered was that I was a woman.”
― Megan Barnard, Jezebel

“People don't make movies about women like me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I climb into my Kia and return to my husband who doesn't love me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I used to be scared or my power too, but I'm not anymore.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Normal Women

“Not everything the world teaches women is a lie.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women