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“I am wearing everything very well. That is a top ten worst compliment of my life,”
― Dolly All the Time
― Dolly All the Time
“I just stared and stared at the stage door, thinking how I’d fucking lied to myself. I love you. There was no end date that could make this hurt less—no plan that could fix it. And if I walked away thinking that would somehow lessen the pain, then I was not only a coward but a fool.”
― Into the Blue
― Into the Blue
“The loveliest place to be is with someone who has lived.”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending, of his exit felt like matching book ends.”
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
“When I think of James now, I think of that man waving. He is not a villain. He is a man with his own wounds. He is my children’s father, the source of many years of love and happiness. He is someone who made decisions about his own life, his own future. He is someone I can survive without. He is someone I don’t know. He is someone who doesn’t know me.”
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
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