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What’s odd, when you think about it, is that people can be seized by the whim to read in the first place. It’s not exactly a natural thing to do.
“This is Daniela with an energy like the first time we met fifteen years ago, before years of life-the normalcy, the elation, the depression, the compromise-transformed her into the woman who now shares my bed: amazing mother, amazing wife, but fighting always against the whispers of what might have been.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Her eyes red-rimmed, now brimming, her forehead furrowed with disbelief and anger. There is nothing worse than seeing your mother cry and being the cause.”
― Missing, Presumed
― Missing, Presumed
“She knows how judgemental mothers are, how good it feels to sit in judgement of someone else.”
― The Couple Next Door
― The Couple Next Door
“...she wonders if it isn't genetic - the whole personal tidiness thing. One is destined to become one's mother, after all. This thought makes her smile to herself - there are worse things.”
― Missing, Presumed
― Missing, Presumed
“...you get to an age when your attachments are so solidly stacked around you, like the bookshelves that reach to the ceiling in the lounge, and they are so built into the fabric of your life that compromise seems nothing next to their dismantling.”
― Missing, Presumed
― Missing, Presumed
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