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Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her.”
“I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it.”
“Too much had happened that night, too much had happened before that night, and so too much climbed into bed with them, sat heavily upon them, and kept them up and thinking, even if they did not say the things they were thinking to each other.”
“Don’t find yourself regretting this. You’re much too young to haunt your own life.”
“That version, as with so many of the stories we tell about our history, erased a woman- a plain, bad heroine- in favor of a less messy and more palatable yarn about two feuding brothers from New England.”
“Alex saw very clearly how dangerous a book like Mary’s could become in the hands of such impressionable girls, such privileged girls: girls who kissed and fondled and laughed as they read each other passages out in the woods; girls whose parents' social standing had taught them that there was nothing at all in the world they could not subjugate, purchase, or ignore; girls who set fires only to watch as others tried, and failed, to put them out.”
“I'd rather we didn´t speak anymore. Let's just wait together in unhappy silence.”
“Isn’t that what the swell of a crush is, after all? Recognizing the flush of truth in all the love clichés?”
“I never disclose my real desires or the texture of my soul.”
“troubling are the deaths of older people submerged in deep regret.”
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Book Keywords:
privilege, too-much, history, relationships, expectations, feminism, insomnia, books