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Spock + Human Emotion

Quotes from the book ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid! Feel free to adjust as needed

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”

“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that.”

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”

“You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”

“Be wary of men with something to prove.”

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it.”

“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”

“Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”

“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”

“Do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear.”

“So am I a whore or not?”

“I like you this way. I like you impure and scrappy and formidable.“

“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”

“Nobody deserves anything.”

“Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?”

“I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life….I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you.”

“Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

“I love you so much sweetheart, so much.”

“You’re an idealist and a romantic, and you have a beautiful soul.”

“She liked to ignore the fact that I had made love to men and enjoyed it.“

“I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.”

“The love of my life is gone, and I can’t just call her and say I’m sorry and have her come back.”

 “I’m proud of you. I love you.”

“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”

“I guess what I’m saying is it’s not all luck. It’s luck and being a son of a bitch.”

“Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”

“Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”

“I simply didn’t care. It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”

“I think being yourself—your true, entire self—is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”