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“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“I’d smiled as I washed my hands. And wondered if human beings ever really grew up, or whether life was simply a playground forever.”
― Lucinda Riley, The Shadow Sister

“That’s something you forget when you’ve been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June

“She was amazed”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters