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“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him. She had…

— Albert Camus

“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.”

— David Malouf

“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”

— Edith Wharton

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen

“She did not want to be greater than her husband: what she did want was that he should acknowledge her as his equal, with…

— Maude Casey

“He can value her excellence and really need her yet, he needn't bother with her.”

— Rick Johnson

“The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system,…

— Nickolas Butler

“Even hearing him say those words thrilled her. She wanted him to possess her. To desire her. To ravish her. She no longer had…

— Audra Claire

“...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 found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon one whose…

— Mervyn Peake

“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to…

— Elizabeth Berg