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Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate Kids by Becoming the Parent You Wish You'd Had

by Bryana Kappadakunnel (Goodreads Author)

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Tess’s Quotes

“The story of Padma and Lalli revealed something more terrible still – That an Indian woman’s first challenge was surviving her own home”
― Sonia Faleiro, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

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“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: friendship, love, time, time-travel

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“More women are murdering people these days,” says Joyce. “If you ignore the context, it is a real sign of progress.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

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“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: death, ghost, ghosts, haunting, life, memory, morbid, morose, pain

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“And so, just like that, in less than an hour since they were gone, Padma was no longer the quick-tempered one. Lalli was no longer the faithful partner in crime. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the status of the people left behind.”
― Sonia Faleiro, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

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