... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wan…

Curtis Sittenfeld
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... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself. ✨ Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). Prep: a novel
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors
What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together? ✨ Curtis Sittenfeld (2012). American Wife, p.349, Random House
... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. ✨ Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). Prep: a novel
After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances … ▶
To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself. ✨ Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). Prep: a novel

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