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Maybe at our most maternal, we aren’t mothers at all. We’re daughters, reaching back in time for the mothers we wish we’d had and then finding ourselves.
“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
― The Crucible
― The Crucible
“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“So many books, so little time.”
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“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me.”
― The Evolution of Mara Dyer
― The Evolution of Mara Dyer
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