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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
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“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
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“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
― The Art of Mending
― The Art of Mending
“Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.”
― The Pull of the Moon
― The Pull of the Moon
Leonor’s 2025 Year in Books
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