Tiago’s Reviews > The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo > Status Update

"Why, until this moment, did I not realize that the issue is my own confidence? That the root of most of my problems is that I need to be secure enough in who I am to tell anyone who doesn't like it to go fuck themselves? Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?"


"I can survive it. I'd rather survive it than never feel it again."

"It's always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly."

'When you're realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is "You're safe with me" - that's intimacy.'

"Being wanted means having to satisfy". I keep going back to that sentence because it really encapsulates a lot of the female experience today. You're shamed if you don't appeal to others, and "you're asking for it" if you do appeal.
It's a lie meant to cage women into the role of the serving "doll".