“He’d convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power. So when he dumped me – because he was bored with me, because he’d found someone else more exciting – I felt both a deep relief and a very real sense of failure.”

“He’d convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power. So when he dumped me – because he was bored with me, because he’d found someone else more exciting – I felt both a deep relief and a very real sense of failure.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid