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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

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I’d always fantasized about indulging in a nervous breakdown.

Luster

by Raven Leilani

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by Rachel Yoder

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Brynne’s Quotes

“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

tags: being-in-love, being-young, love, twenties, young-people

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“We, in that way siblings do for outsiders, tried to make a travelling circus out of our childhood. Stories about old holiday rentals and falling out of trees.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

tags: being-in-love, being-young, coming-of-age, growing-up, romance

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“Puberty in the 2000s was Paris Hilton’s sex tape and Britney Spears’s crotch shots and Amy Winehouse drunk on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and if any of that happened now we would have found a way to celebrate it, but then it was disgusting.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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