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“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
― Louise Gluck, The Triumph of Achilles

“At first I saw you everywhere.
Now only in certain things,
at longer intervals.”
― Louise Glück

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar