How to Fall Out of Love Madly

And really, I guess so much of everything is wanting someone to see you for what you are. Isn´t that what language is? We´ve invented so many words not to feel so invisible.

Was it ever really love or was it wanting to be wanted by someone who was impossibly difficult?

Only a small number of strangers in your life will ever care to know you, let alone to love you,

Now she saw herself mirrored through him and he was an image of her insides, what she would settle for, how little she thought she deserved. I don't love you, she thought. I never did.

I think, basic is something that only ever gets saidto women as a way to make them feel bad about themselves. And really men are the most basic people of all.

but love really isn’t enough. Love is the first step

You deserve better than to be with someone who hurts you all the time.

I know this doesn’t fit the narrative we’ve been fed, but I think love is a choice. It’s about compromising on what you can and can’t tolerate in a relationship and making it work.

It wasn't so much that she didn't want to look like her mom as it was the realization of how she was little more than some genes stranded together.

I want to believe that in my friend are the same things that are inside of me.

I want to believe everything about my mom is part of me. And then I feel as vast and big as anything else.

Men have probably kept us from coming up with a word that would describe that feeling you feel when a man does something like that to you.

People could tell you whatever politically correct garbage they wanted to, but youth meant something in this world and it especially meant something for a woman.

The unexamined life is not worth living

In the same way that the email had unearthed Joy to her as intimate, she felt suddenly aware that any person, a stranger, a lover, anyone at all, could be turned over, pulled apart, set upright and suddenly they´d be someone different.