Lost in the Reflecting Pool Quotes

“also have a much deeper understanding of what it means to be in a relationship with a narcissist, with someone for whom I could have been anyone, as long as I met his needs. I was truly interchangeable with anyone else, even after twenty years and the two children we struggled so much to have, and once I wasn’t useful, I no longer existed. For me, it was a relationship; for him, I was a need-gratifying object.”
― Diane Pomerantz, Lost in the Reflecting Pool: A Memoir

“The way he used words was really verbal masturbation”
― Diane Pomerantz, Lost in the Reflecting Pool: A Memoir

“In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction, moments when I noticed things unfolding wrongly and failed to query or object.” —Heat Lightning, by Leah Hager Cohen”
― Diane Pomerantz, Lost in the Reflecting Pool: A Memoir