“What I am saying, these decisions we make in youth are everything. You have no idea. Those feelings, they don’t revenir. Pas comme ça. And no one tells you.’ She points to the pages of Yash’s letter on the bed. ‘Do not put this love second. Marry him. Marry him and have your babies. It doesn’t matter what happens after that.’ I say I’m only twenty-three and she says, ‘Screw the calendar. What does a calendar know about love?”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“A friend gave it to me.’ For a moment I was barefoot in our road, watching his car disappear.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“Sloane felt powerful in that deeply frustrating way, because there was no real power here. She was at least old enough now to understand that, which was what made her, in her mind, less attractive than Arya’s other theoretical options. The imaginary younger woman who still felt like making a man come was the same thing as having power over him. But could it get you tenure?”
― Girl Dinner
― Girl Dinner
“I have loved you all my life,' I whisper. 'See you after the next bang.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“Someday we will remember even these our hardships with pleasure.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
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