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Because Adam and Paul had shared everything, from a dorm room in college to the same insurance agent. And Claire supposed she belonged on that list of shared items,
“I thought how fucking unfair it was that he made us butterflies, of all things. Real butterflies could fly away, out of reach. The Gardener's Butterflies could only ever fall, and that but rarely.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Pretty Girls
― Pretty Girls
“No matter what happened to you, no matter the horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.”
― Pretty Girls
― Pretty Girls
“On a date that isn’t going well? Do you feel unsafe or just a little uneasy? Ask for Andrea at the bar. We’ll make sure you get home safe.”
― Ask for Andrea
― Ask for Andrea
“Because if I didn’t know what he had done- 100% for sure, because well, here I was- I never really would have believed he was capable of hurting someone. It made it worse, somehow, that he could be the tickle monster and the monster waiting with an extension cord in my side yard at the same time. I wanted him to be one or the other. Not both.”
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