“close my eyes, listening to the sound of the past, imagining myself back into the skin of the girl I once was, a girl whose friends were still around her, whose mistakes were ahead of her. I am happy.”
― The Lying Game
― The Lying Game
“I had this feeling, my entire life, that I was never going to be enough. I internalized pretty early that I was never going to be as good, as smart, as lovable, as wanted”
― Loathe to Love You
― Loathe to Love You
“we leave this life the same way we enter it—totally alone, bereft.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn’t mean that you’re saying it’s all right now, or that you’ve forgotten the wrong. It just means that you’ve drained the boil. When you touch it, it doesn’t hurt as much. That’s all.”
― In the Blood
― In the Blood
“The real reason was because she’d quietly hoped the pregnancy would take care of itself. End as these things sometimes do. In the 1950s, abortion was out of the question. Coincidentally, so was having a baby out of wedlock.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
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