The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
there are folks in retirement homes still looking for boyfriends and girlfriends. the desire and potential for love never dies unless you kill it yourself
I am a Carrie Bradshaw defender but I cannot defend the indefensible. She was absolutely out of her mind to invite Big to Aidan's country house. By far the most thoroughly sick and twisted stunt she ever pulled.