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Here was a man who had shot a bullet at me. Who had rammed me into a tree. Who had called me disgusting, many times. Who had strong armed me casually whenever he thought I needed to be taught a lesson…and who had raped me a time or two-my mind, unconvinced, interrupts me here to say, “Oh Celia, don’t catastrophize; rape is such a judgmental word, when you know he never left bruises…
Evil Genius Claire Oshetsky
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you 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.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid
I am aware that shortly I shall exist as only a shelf-ful of books plus a cluster of Biographical Anecdotes. And life is not a tragedy with a happy ending, despite what religion promises; rather, it is a farce with a tragic ending, or, at best, a light comedy with a sad ending.
Departure[s] Julian Barnes
Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many times over. We flake away and become new. Whatever we are now, we are not the stuff from which we were originally made. All the people we once were. All the people we had once hoped to be.
Twist Colum McCann
I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.
Normal People Sally Rooney
It was overwhelming in her body, the multitude, all the selves she'd been.
Lightbreakers Aja Gabel