The archive of Mari has preserved some of Shamshi-Addu's letters to Yasmah-Addu, after he installed him there as governor, in which he frequently criticized his son for being an ineffective administrator, spending too much time with women
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“Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways? When they opened a newspaper or watched a film, were they presented with nothing but exceptionally handsome young men, and did this make them feel intimidated, inferior, because they were not as young, not as handsome? Did they then read newspaper articles ridiculing those same handsome men if they gained weight or wore something unflattering?”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Lydia cleared her throat. She had gone from thinking that Rick was going to be mad at her to being mad at Rick for telling her what to do, which was crazy because none of the conversations had actually taken place anywhere but inside her own head.”
― Pretty Girls
― Pretty Girls
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