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“Sometimes the true power is in the shadows. Someone who stays out of the light, and watches others shrivel and burn in its glare.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

“When God gives you more than you can tolerate, you turn to instinct. And instinct is a force beyond anyone’s control.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Female psychopaths, researchers eventually realized, don't present like the males. To which I respond: No shit. We women have an emotional wiliness that shellacs us in glossy patina of caring. We have been raised to take interest in promoting healthy interior lives of other humans; preparation, I suppose, for taking on the emotional labor of motherhood - or marriage; either way, really. Few women come into maturity unscathed by the suffocating pink press of girlhood, and even psychopaths are touched by the long, frilly arm of feminine expectations. It's not that women psychopaths don't exist; it's that we fake it better than men.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“That’s what the mid-thirties should be about, after all: constant self-interrogation. Acquiring the courage to change what you can, and the therapist to accept what you can’t. What”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Adults