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“In the first message, left at 4:10, Miranda said, "Pick up this phone at once. How dare you leave me hanging this way? You 'can't live without me,' what the hell does that--answer the phone, Andrea!"

The second message, left at 4:14, said, "I understand the impulse, really, but I'm not sure this is--there are the girls to consider, of course, and…it's very soon. It's very quick. And I'm tempted, but--you're right, we have to talk. Call me."

The third message, left at 4:22, said, "All right. All right. If you've changed your mind, I'll kill you. I will kill you. We'll do it. Call me before I change my mi--we'll do it. Call me tonight. I have things to take care of this--I have things." The message clicked off. Andy stared into space.

'We'll do it.”
― Telanu, Truth and Measure

“Do you think I'm a whore?” Harry pulled over to the side of the road and turned to me. “I think you're brilliant. I think you're tough. And I think the word whore is something ignorant people throw around when they have nothing else.

… “Isn't it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that's looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You'd all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that's the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.”

I laughed, my eyes still puffy and tired from crying. “So am I a whore or not?” “Who knows?” he said. “We're all whores, really, in some way or another. At least in Hollywood.” … “But I like you this way. I like you impure and scrappy and formidable. I like the Evelyn Hugo who sees the world for what it is and then goes out there and wrestles what she wants out of it. So, you know, put whatever label you want on it, just don't change. That would be the real tragedy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Some of us struggle when it comes to knowing where we belong in this world.”
― Melissa Brayden, Beautiful Dreamer

“can’t speak for all people who have been hit by someone they love, but what I can tell you is that forgiveness is different from absolution.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo