“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It would take me years to figure out that life doesn't get easier simply because it gets more glamorous. But you couldn't have told me that when I was fourteen.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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