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“It is weird, and lovely, how sex changes everything, how there is no predicting what will happen until you’re there on the other side with your swollen lips and unrolling your underwear from the bunched top sheet.”

—Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia

(thingsorganizedneatly)

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“Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”
— Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

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“It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.”
— Melissa Bank, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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“I believed that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.” 
—Donald Barthelme, Me and Miss Mandible

(onenightinpalestine)

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“I’ve spent three years wanting a thing I knew would never make me happy. But that didn’t stop me wanting it. You were like a bad drug I couldn’t stop craving. My whole life was a kind of mourning for some evil drug I knew was bad for me. ”

—Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

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“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn’t the same as what it’s like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”
— Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation