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The Girls
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All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you—the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.
“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“People eat their dinner, just eat their dinner, and all the while their happiness is taking form, or their lives are falling apart. Anton Chekhov”
― Piglet
― Piglet
“Piglet understood how it was, how it would always be: they, the family; her, the imposter—still, always.”
― Piglet
― Piglet
“Marriage is a commitment, but a lesser one than a mother has to her son.”
― Piglet
― Piglet
“She was avoiding people, she knew, but she had started to feel irritated by the opinions of others, their needs, their insistence on sharing them all with her when it was her wedding in two days' time.”
― Piglet
― Piglet
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