Goddess Complex

“But I was starting to suspect that there was no way to avoid regret, that all you had to do was find a way to live with it.”

“I might have been happy. I might not have been myself, but that would have been no real loss, as I did not particularly like being myself.”

“Perhaps it ran both ways; perhaps mothers and daughters were doomed to look at each other this way, not as people but as foreclosed selves.”

“... I'd like to get along with them, but in practice, I don't want to have to make concessions to be the kind of person who they would get along with.”

“Sorry, ... implies that the loss will only ever be a loss. That it won't, in some way, transform into something else. Sorry is a wall between sadness and hope.”

“... she told me if I went on like this, giving myself away to anyone and everyone, I'd wind up fragmented, less of a person, like these oversexed Americans. She was not entirely wrong”

“Humans, like other animals, depend on belonging somewhere.”

“… there is someone inside you - someone you once trusted because she was you - who steered you straight into disaster. You never know when she will rise up from the depths to possess you once more.”

“You know what adulthood is? It's making choices. And if you make the wrong one - there's no going back.”