Top 39 Melissa Broder Quotes
#1. Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think I need you to be: a love story.
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#2. What I have sought in love is a reprieve from the itch of consciousness -- to transcend myself and my human imperfections -- but this has yet to happen.
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#3. It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, Yo, what the fuck?
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#4. I don't watch a lot of porn, but a typical search term for me is "fat lesbians." What a beautiful fantasy: to be accepted and embraced and adored as your biggest self, the most you, by a woman who is her fullest her.
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#5. Maybe we do better when we see each other simply as beloveds.
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#6. An external attribution exists to make you feel less shitty. It's a handy tool, wherein you perceive anything positive that happens to you as a mistake, subjective, and/or never a result of your own goodness. Negative things, alternately, are the objective truth. And they're always your fault.
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#7. Our single friends say they are going to be alone for the rest of their lives and we tell them they are crazy. We tell them they are definitely going to find someone. But how do we know? We know nothing.
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#8. When you're lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.
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#9. I'm in love with you and you don't want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story.
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#11. I feel bad about my deeper, underlying reasons for judging people with children. I judge them as a defense mechanism, because I am sad about my motivations for not having kids. I am self-centered and dysmorphic with low self-esteem.
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#12. Sometimes when I need to comfort myself (all the time) I think about your lisp and it creates a wombskin around my brain full of barbituratesque nectar, the side effects of which include a horny surge in my second chakra and pussy, and then severe withdrawal: a love story.
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#13. In the dark you looked so human in your skin that I called you human in my head and didn't want you then and felt relieved: a love story.
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#14. Imagining that you are going to come back to me is my favorite way to spend the day: a love story. I
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#15. There would never be enough milk. One titty is too many and a thousand are never enough. What I really sought was a cosmic titty. I sought a titty so omniscient it could sate all my holes. The world was already not enough, and I, of course, was not enough either. They gave me a bottle.
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#16. Definitely thought I was a lesbian until we dated and then I thought I might just be asexual, or not asexual, actually, but even more deeply fucked up than I ever knew: a love story.
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#17. I wanted to build a fire with our shadow selves and burn there or be erased by the narcotic of limerence when I turned your face into a fire: a love story.
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#18. What happens to the space that two people occupied together? How can it just disappear? Why can't it just become something else?
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#19. I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people's struggles and yet it still hurts.
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#21. Babies are born because parents feel they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours.
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#22. I feel like my life has a lot of caves and they are all filled with your hair: a love story.
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#23. The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story.
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#24. I claim to believe my god exists, because I have experienced its presence many times. I have experienced god through other human beings who have helped me. While individuals have let me down, collectively I've always been able to help.
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#26. Parents, if your kid is eating herself, you have to let her. Let your child devour herself whole. Even if she disappears completely, encourage her to vanish. Let your child eat the shit out of herself and then shit herself out. Let her eat that.
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#27. I feel bad for using the world old as synonymous with bad. Where did I learn that to look old as a woman is bad? Maybe I learned it, like, everywhere.
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#28. But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?
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#29. We're going to spend the rest of our lives together in my head: a love story
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#30. I think it's time for you to drop back into my life, ruin it, then disappear again: a love story. The
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#31. I am a vanity eater, a machinelike eater, a suppresser-of-feels eater.
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#32. I sanctify the ground and say fuck it
I say fuck it in a way that does not invite death
I say fuck it and fall down no new holes
And I ride an unwinged horse
And I unbecome myself
And I strip my poison suit
And wear my crown of fuck its
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#33. Once a cucumber turns into a pickle, you can't turn it back into a cucumber. And I've been pickled by the internet for a long time.
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#34. Also, the silence is always there. The silence doesn't go away.
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#36. Just saw two ants drown together in my bathtub and it reminded me of us: a love story.
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#37. In the context of food and consumption, too-muchness translates into not-enoughness: your appetites are too big for the planet, and therefore, you probably shouldn't be here.
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#38. Just because you have beautiful eyes doesn't mean you're deep: a love story. When
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#39. can you believe in guides your eyes can't see
can you believe I still want you
I cannot believe you would choose loneliness
loneliness is how little you want me
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