Nell Frizzell

a second adolescence, not of new bleeding and breasts, but of self-awareness, maturity, and seriousness.

When it ends, your heartbreak isn’t so much for a person as for something that never really was: an opportunity ripped away, a trick of hope you played on yourself.

the reason I so single-mindedly tried to make incompatible men fall in love with me was because, deep down, I didn’t feel worthy of, or ready for, real commitment.