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And I wish you felt like this about me, but I know you don't and I don't think you ever will.

Eliza Clark, from Boy Parts

#reminds me of #mexican wrestler

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“I trust you may be happier without a wife, than ever you have been with me. I have felt almost daily since we were married that you were a man who would have been happier without a wife than with one.”

— Anthony Trollope, from Phineas Finn

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“I’d had the unflattering realization that I had never once, in my life, gone after a man who was fully available … look who I’d pined after at Granby: the hottest guy on the ski team, and Kurt Fucking Cobain. Men who could never hurt me, because I could remain invisible to them.”

— Rebecca Makkai, from I Have Some Questions for You

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. . . when viewing television commercials that celebrated the ostensibly unconditional love of mothers for their children, or on spotting merchandise in stores that honored this unique bond with poems or effusive declarations—picture frames, magnets, oven mitts—she had felt like a foreign exchange student observing the customs of another country.

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

#left out

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I feel it, that pit, that emptiness. I'm going to lose you . . . The terrible irony is that more than anything in the world I want you to stay.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold

#my favorite quote #how i felt about him

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“… the curse came about, despite every precaution.”

— Tanith Lee, from Red as Blood: Tales of the Sisters Grimmer

#all timer #underrated #inspo #epigraph

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I adored her. Everyone did. It was impossible not to love her.

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

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How rare it was . . . to be surprised in a good way by the members of her family.

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

#big mood

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Sometimes he loved her, sometimes he was just amused and touched by the degree to which she loved him. Sometimes he was bored by her love and felt it was a burden. Sometimes his sense of himself was enhanced, sometimes diminished by it.

Renata Adler, from Pitch Dark

#oof #brutal

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I kept the memory of our parting safe, hoarding it as a sign of unspoken feeling. All summer long, I talked to his ghost, telling the shadow what I had wanted to tell the man.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold

#all timer #fanfic inspo #how i felt about him #romance novel inspo #my favorite quote

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“It was a moment for Violet to surrender to fate, but she looked now unlikely to surrender to anything.”

— Iris Murdoch, from The Book and the Brotherhood

#all timer

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His dark narcissism no longer seemed interesting to her and had no further command over her spirits. She would no longer wreck herself against the rocks and destroy her mind, body, and soul to win his love; he simply wasn't worth it.

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

#reminds me of #clean #taylor swift

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“Roses weep for your future knowing”

— Melissa Broder, from Last Sext

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'You could stand on a street corner, announce you want a wife, and be engaged fifteen minutes later.'

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

#recurring theme

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“She was relieved to find herself more eloquently angry.”

— Iris Murdoch, from The Book and the Brotherhood

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. . . the hours—nay, years—they devoted to making some man see them in a particular way . . .

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

#reminds me of #lisa taddeo #ghost lover #recurring theme

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He could fuck anyone, though. He could go outside and tap a lady on the shoulder, any age, married, whatever. Women would find the nearest car hood.

Lisa Taddeo, from Ghost Lover

#humor