“When I am with you, I feel an extraordinary sense of hope... like I have been in the dark for a long time, and did not realize it until the light came on.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Literary Sext, Hopeful, In love, The One, Romantic
“You're so beautiful, I want to throw a land mine into a wall of cinderblocks and paint your lips with the dust cloud.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Literary Sext
“What can we hope for in a marriage but to keep seeing things anew? With the people we love, it is so easy to stop seeing them at all.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Love Advice
“What I wanted was both my husband as well as a harem of boys who were totally devoted to me, at my beck and call at all times.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Commitment Issues
“Is fake love better than real love? Real love is responsibility, compromise, selflessness, being present, and all that shit. Fake love is magic, excitement, false hope, infatuation, and getting high of the potential that another person is going to save you from yourself.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Love, Crush, Infatuation, True Love, puppy love
“Does anyone really know who they are marrying? People change. We do not know if the person we commit to will be the same person in ten years. We do not know who they will become. Will you be the same person in ten years: in health, body, money, interests, mental health?”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Change, Afraid Of Love, Growing Old, Commitment Issues
“The truth is, distance and unavailability—flecked with short-lived, gorgeous IRL binges—were what made the drug-person so intoxicating. I wanted more of the drug-person than could ever be available. When I didn’t get a text, I was, as junkies say, sick. When I received a text it made me well. But it…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Obsession, BPD, I Still Love You
“I said "I'm in love with you" or "I love you". I don't remember which. He said it back. I don't remember which.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Fake Love
“Let's pretend you are capable of being who I want you to be.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Fake Love
“When you’re lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Lonely, hungry for love, Addiction
“Imagining that you are going to come back to me is my favorite way to spend the day.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Not Over You, Unrequited Love, I Miss You, Heartache
““I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people’s struggles and yet it still hurts.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Depression, First world problems, Lonely
“Where did I learn that to look old as a woman is bad?”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Growing Pains, Growing Old, Ageism, Vanity
“I don't want to be older and wiser. I want to be younger and hotter.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Ageism, Growing Pains
“It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, "Yo, what the fuck?"”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, alive
“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of "losing it". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Lonely, Not Good Enough
“Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fi…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.comTagged: Existing, Existence, I Hate Life, Parenthood, Bad Parents