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Matrix by Lauren Groff

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Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed.

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“Don’t leave your teen with the choice between obediently toeing the line or acting like a lunatic to exert some level of control over life.”
― Jerusha Clark, Your Teenager Is Not Crazy: Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You a Better Parent

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“I must spare my lovedones my endless roiling thoughts. I must conceal just how hard grief's iron clamp is.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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“And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

tags: longing, love-hurts

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“Is it possible to be possessive of one's pain?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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“My sister Uche says she has just told a family friend by text, and I almost scream, “No! Don’t tell anyone, because if we tell people, then it becomes true.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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