87 Quotes by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Bored women join clubs and volunteer. Sad women have affairs.

Jung said that beautiful women were sources of terror. That as a general rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

A secret’s safest hiding place is in the open.

Where you were is never as relevant as where you are.

IS THERE A DIFFERENCE between shame and guilt?” Anna asked. “Shame is psychic extortion,” Doktor Messerli answered. “Shame lies. Shame a woman and she will believe she is fundamentally wrong, organically delinquent. The only confidence she will have will be in her failures. You will never convince her otherwise.

An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense.

Shame lies. Shame a woman and she will believe she is fundamentally wrong, organically delinquent. The only confidence she will have will be in her failures. You will never convince her otherwise.

Grief that finds no relief in tears makes other organs weep.

Is it possible to fall in love over a single look? Anna couldn’t say. But at the behest of a glance tossed casually down upon her, she was made witness, victim, and slave to the culmination of all her mythologies.