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“But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very…

— Mary Jo Putney

“She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with…

— Jonathan Franzen

“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that…

— F. Sionil José

“She wanted what most women want, but she wanted it much more fiercely and passionately.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He wanted them both, but there was no having everything, and love couldn't help him now. Nothing could help him but bravery, and what…

— Paula McLain

“she is all things men want to love, but could never handle.”

— Christopher Poindexter

“She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“She said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted.”

— Anthony Doerr

“It seems to me those are just the ones who have to do without, because, in the final analysis, they can. And men basically…

— Lynne Reid Banks

“...she gave him all the love she could not give herself. She loved him becasue he was the embodiment of those attributes she wanted…

— Lilian Pizzichini

“She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.”

— Françoise Sagan

“Love could not save her from the bargains others had made.”

— Thomm Quackenbush