Bonding by Mariel Franklin

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

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

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  "Love, when it works, can feel like such a terrifying fluke. Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, thes...

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

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

The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

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

Love in Exile by Shon Faye

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

On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant

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  "Whatever tone it takes, whatever magnetic field it generates, this latter kind of contact with inconvenience disturbs the vision of ...

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

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  "Wasn't that what a marriage ought to be? Like one of those movie-style disasters—shipwrecks or earthquakes or enemy prisons—wher...

Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill

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  "Any love affair is a creative act, part imagination, part practice; often, it can lift an artist to new levels of exalted energy ....

Knife by Salman Rushdie

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  "Language, too, was a knife. It could cut open the world and reveal its meaning, its inner workings, its secrets, its truths ." 

My Education by Susan Choi

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  "Because I still loved her: I could have stopped my own heart with my mind if it meant she'd come back ."