Is the depressing part that he's only half right

Curtis Sittenfeld
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Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder. ✨ Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). The Man of My Dreams, p.114, Random House
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