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“Even though she can be annoying sometimes, I don’t know what I would do without her. A girl needs her mother.”
― Freida McFadden, Ward D

“People who want to be famous think it’s the same thing as being loved, but it’s not. Strangers can only ever love a version of you. People loving you for your best qualities is not the same as people loving you despite your worst.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“I wondered how the public's consumption of others' pain and suffering cross the line from empathy to voyeurism. How quickly have we, as a society, become numb to the struggles of others, our capacity for compassion eroded by the sheer volume of human drama we're exposed to daily? We were just characters in a soap opera now, except the drama was real, and the consequences permanent. Our grief had been reduced to a mere commodity, packaged and sold, consumed and discarded.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom