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That vein of inadequacy running through her that led her to say yes to banal networking events and taking on more cases than she could realistically run led – in parenthood – to misery.
“Every kid gets a different set of parents”
― We Are All Guilty Here
― We Are All Guilty Here
“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“She was happy, in some ways, to know that her body would decompose. That she would give back to the Earth all she had taken from it.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“but the thing about controlling parents is that they are teaching their children how to be controlled,”
― We Are All Guilty Here
― We Are All Guilty Here
“Bostonians, as far as I could tell from what I’d read at our desktop computer back home, were famously smart and famously uninterested in pleasantries. That kind of world was undoubtedly the one where I belonged.”
― Yesteryear
― Yesteryear
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