Jeanne Safer

Quotes

• “Obsessive love is built on a tissue of illusions: that by having sex with someone you can possess that person's soul; th...”
• “Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another...”
• “The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distributio...”
• “He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was always the same....”
• “I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt dee...”
• “What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to d...”
• “Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance...”
• “Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or a...”