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I did care. . . . I did say everything I thought In the mildest words I knew. And now, . . . I have to say I am relieved it is over: At the end I could feel only pity For that urge toward more life. . . . Goodbye.
“Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.”
― Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
― Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
― Little Bee
― Little Bee
“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Little Bee
― Little Bee
Simone’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Simone’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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37 friends
1,988 books
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645 books
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18 friends
770 books
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6 friends
146 books
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2,427 books
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50 friends
52 books
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2 friends
94 books
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31 friends
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