Quote by Diane Setterfield

“When I marveled over our compatibility and how easy things were with us, she said she believed that it was true that I loved…

— Tig Notaro

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”

— Mary Gaitskill

“She stood there for a moment, conflicted and confused. A victim of you and inexperience and a deep desire - a need- to believe…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Because it was true. He was hopelessly entangled. With wanting her to be happy, and to be safe. But most importantly, with wanting her…

— Vivian Arend

“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.”

— Annabel Joseph

“What she’d done for him, because he’d asked.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“That man had deliberately set out to charm her. It didn't matter that he'd succeeded, she thought perversely. It only mattered that he had…

— Julia Quinn

“And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more…

— Rainbow Rowell

“We disconnected. And I wondered if we had ever truly connected.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“She wanted more than anything to believe him. To believe that things didn’t always have to be so desperate, so painful. To believe she…

— Sara Shepard

“I lost no time, of course, in telling him about the book I wanted to write. Not, by then, to my surprise, he readily…

— Wendell Berry

“Surely the truth was a really important part of any authentic relationship. But so was acceptance, and I hadn't known how to balance those…

— Kaya McLaren