315 Quotes by Melissa Broder

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    I chew the gum, because I don’t trust the universe to fill me up on its own. I can’t count on the universe to sate my many holes: physical, emotional, spiritual. So I take matters into my own hands. I give myself little “doggy treats” for being alive.

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    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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    You were going to the hardware store for milk again,” said Dr. Mahjoub.

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    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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    I am a vanity eater, a machinelike eater, a suppresser-of-feels eater.

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    But unfortunately, I’m forced to be a grown-up in life. On the internet I’m still sixteen.

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    Maybe that’s all that prayer was anyway – a cosmic google. In that case, any iPhone could be a synagogue.

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