

“It鈥檚 amazing what people create using their pain. Work that is touched by melancholy has its own unique beauty. Even the word 鈥榤elancholy鈥 is pretty, the way it rolls on your tongue. I think sadness adds something to literature that is unique. It鈥檚 an ingredient like . . .鈥 I thought for a moment. 鈥淟ike salt. Salt has that power to completely transform a dish. I think sadness has that same transformative effect in literature.”
― Sad Girls
― Sad Girls

“and hold her. Another woman would have instinctively known what Bonnie needed. But as a man, I didn鈥檛 know that touching, holding, and listening were so important to her. By recognizing these differences I began to learn a new way of relating to my wife. I would have never believed we could resolve conflict so easily.”
― Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
― Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― The Girls
― The Girls

“People get dumped all the time, and it sucks, but you know what you do? You cry; you smash a few plates; you go to a karaoke bar and make a fool of yourself. However you choose to deal with it, it鈥檚 your shit to handle. It鈥檚 your burden to carry. You don鈥檛 drag other people down with you. You don鈥檛 turn up on the doorstep in the middle of the night acting like a raving lunatic.”
― Sad Girls
― Sad Girls

“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how impersonal and grasping our love was, pinging around the universe, hoping for a host to give form to our wishes.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
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