Charlotte Shane Quotes

#1. It started to hurt less because it mattered so much less.

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#2. I wanted to press the bruise once more to see how much pain was still pooled below the surface. I don't mean I wanted it in the sense of desire. Rather, I intended to do it through the force of primal habit.

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#3. I'm sorry,' I told him one night over dinner. I was genuinely embarrassed, not least of all because I was sure I'd said it before. 'Sometimes I love you too much to listen to what you're saying.

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#4. In the past, I thought I should put serious effort into being less materially attached, to train myself to like expensive things less. Now it was happening organically and almost violently, with full conviction.

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#5. That's how to cultivate obsession even if you're only trying for reassurance. Document it. Keep touching it. Make sure it's really there.

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#6. I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,

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#7. I smiled the private smile of the corrected fool

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#8. The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

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#9. I read too much as a child; I believe now that I can bookmark unrealized events in my life to return to them later.

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#10. I am still capable of feeling used. I am still capable of having a sexual experience that makes me feel like my entire life has been a mean joke.

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#11. It was in his office, though, where he told me he'd never had anal sex. His cock was very large, but anal was so trendy and ubiquitous that I thought it impossible that there was anyone left in America who hadn't tried it.

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