Megan Power

"Independence was expensive—or to put it another way, freedom only came at a cost."

Posted by Megan Power in Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Bonding by Mariel Franklin

"Love, when it works, can feel like such a terrifying fluke. Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, these choices must happen at roughly the same time."

Penguin Random House

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

"If I had created Patrick Bateman I would now write a story in which he was uncreated and his world was erased."

Knopf

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Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

"That was not how people changed; they didn't change themselves: you got changed by being made to live through something, and then you found yourself changed."

Vintage International

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The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

"Today, romantic relationships are often aspired to by women primarily because of the promise of emotional reciprocity and closeness they promise."

Farrar Straus and Giroux

Posted by Megan Power in Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"Whatever tone it takes, whatever magnetic field it generates, this latter kind of contact with inconvenience disturbs the vision of yourself you carry around that supports your sovereign fantasy, your fantasy of being in control...sovereignty is always in defense of something, not a right or natural state."

Duke University Press

Posted by Megan Power in Duke University Press

On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant

"Wasn't that what a marriage ought to be? Like one of those movie-style disasters—shipwrecks or earthquakes or enemy prisons—where strangers, trapped in close quarters by circumstance, show their real strengths and weaknesses."

Ballatine Books