“I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what’s wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourse…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Certain nights you’d feel a certain surrender, maybe if you’d had wine. The surrender would be forgetting yourself and you’d put your nose to his neck and feel like a squirrel, safe, at rest, in a restful dream. But then you’d start to slip from that and the dark would come in and there’d be a cave.…”— Susan Minot, amazon.com
“I kiss your shattered ego and say, “Here, take mine.” “Take all I have.” So you take it all and leave for the girl I could taste all along.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com