“There are worse things than not receiving love. There are sadder stories than this. There are species going extinct, and a planet warming. I told myself: who are you to complain, you with these frivolous extracurricular needs?”— CJ Hauser, theparisreview.orgTagged: Needs, Wants, Love
“I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient. I did not want to feel like the kind of nagging woman who might exist in a sit-c…”— CJ Hauser, theparisreview.orgTagged: Needs, Relationships, Endings, Want