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Julie Buntin
“Marlena and I were very different, but sometimes, when we were together, we could erase our separate histories just by talking, sharing a joke or a look. But in the kitchen with Mom, the kitchen that was always clean, where there was always something to eat, where the water flowed predictably from the tap and behind every cabinet door were dishes, only dishes, I saw how wrong I was to feel like Marlena and I had so much in common, and how lucky. Because here was the difference that mattered. My skinny mom with her Chardonnay smell and her forgetting to unplug the flat iron, with her corny jokes about broccoli farts and her teeth bared in anger and her cleaning gloves in the backseat of the car, my mom who refused to stop loving me, who made dumb mistakes and drank too much and was my twin in laughter, my mom who would never, ever, leave, who I trusted so profoundly that a world without her in it exceeded the limits of my imagination. That was the difference, and it was huge, and my never seeing it before is something that I still regret.”
Julie Buntin, Marlena

Julie Buntin
“Privilege is something to be aware of, to fight to see beyond, but ultimately to be grateful for. It’s like a bulletproof vest; it makes you harder to kill.”
Julie Buntin, Marlena

Julie Buntin
“Raise your glass. Drink to trying, like this, to bring her back.”
Julie Buntin, Marlena

Julie Buntin
“Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are. I switch off my apartment light and she comes with the dark.”
Julie Buntin, Marlena

Laini Taylor
“Lazlo. You have to wake up now, my love. And he did.”
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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