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21 " I think the word whore is something ignorant people throw around when they have nothing else. "
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
22 " That and the fact that, at least at first, Don Adler treated me like a person. There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower's beauty to be theirs, to be within their possession, their control. Don wasn't like that. At least, not at first. Don was happy to be near the flower, to look at the flower, to appreciate the flower simply being. "
23 " Looking at myself now, pulled together and slimmer, I feel a rush of confidence. I look good. I feel good. "
24 " I didn’t stay in New York and let David go to San Francisco because I like the Statue of Liberty. I did it because I want to climb the ladder as high as I possibly can. I did it because I want my name, the name my father gave me, in big, bold letters one day. This is my chance. "
25 " I’ve got this shit. "
26 " But back then, at least for me, I didn’t have that equation. And if you don’t even realize that there’s a formula to be working with, how the hell are you supposed to find the answer? "
27 " Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that. "
28 " She liked to ignore the fact that I had made love to men and enjoyed it. She liked to ignore it until the very moment she decided to be threatened by it. That seemed to be her pattern. I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me. "
29 " It occurs to me that it is the very thing that made her that will be the thing to finally take her down. "
30 " It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you. "
31 " You can be sorry about something not regret it. "
32 " Intimacy was impossible without trust. "
33 " I think the word whore is something ignorant people throw around when hey have nothing else. "
34 " Sex is just an act. Sexuality is a sincere expression of desire and pleasure. "
35 " To you,” she said. “For being absolutely unstoppable. "
36 " No sabes cuánto has estado corriendo, lo mucho que has estado trabajando y lo agotada que estás, hasta que alguien se para detrás de ti y te dice: "Tranquila, ahora puedes caerte. Yo te sostengo".Así que me caí.Y Harry me sostuvo. "
37 " I remember him saying, in the dark, cramped stockroom with my back against a wooden crate, "You have this power over me."He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault.And I believed him.Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power. "
38 " It is two A.M., and you are tired. You miss the love of your life. You want to go home. You would rather be with her, in bed, hearing the light buzz of her snoring, watching her sleep, than be here.[...]You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly. "
39 " All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine. But you’ve never been mine. Not really. I’ve always had to settle for one piece of you. While the world gets the other half. I don’t blame you. It doesn’t make me stop loving you. But I can’t do it. I can’t do it, Evelyn. I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time. "
40 " I made it fifty-fifty. Which is the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad. "