Goddess Complex Quotes

“But I was starting to suspect that there was no way to avoid regret, that all you had to do was find a way to live with it.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“Perhaps it ran both ways; perhaps mothers and daughters were doomed to look at each other this way, not as people but as foreclosed selves.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“I might have been happy. I might not have been myself, but that would have been no real loss, as I did not particularly like being myself.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“Sorry, ... implies that the loss will only ever be a loss. That it won't, in some way, transform into something else. Sorry is a wall between sadness and hope.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“... I'd like to get along with them, but in practice, I don't want to have to make concessions to be the kind of person who they would get along with.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“You know what adulthood is? It's making choices. And if you make the wrong one - there's no going back.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“... she told me if I went on like this, giving myself away to anyone and everyone, I'd wind up fragmented, less of a person, like these oversexed Americans. She was not entirely wrong”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“Humans, like other animals, depend on belonging somewhere.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex

“… there is someone inside you - someone you once trusted because she was you - who steered you straight into disaster. You never know when she will rise up from the depths to possess you once more.”
― Sanjena Sathian, Goddess Complex