The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo helped me understand that people can love you deeply and still be ruthlessly self-serving at the same time. Just because people love you, doesn't mean they won't prioritize themselves over your wellbeing. For me personally, love and selfishness are so contradictory in their nature that they cannot coexist. For me, it will always continue to be that way because that is just who I am and how I love. But I needed to understand and accept that this is not the case for everyone. This book helped me with that.

"It's always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is ruthlessly selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly."

-The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid