Julian Jerez

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.”
― Amanda Torroni