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“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. Kim sometimes thinks that women practise being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy.”
― The Night She Disappeared
― The Night She Disappeared
“I haven’t read any of them, either. Not since her first book.” I spin and look at him. “Really?” “I didn’t like being inside her head.”
― Verity
― Verity
“Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“this story is not primarily about spies and secret government agencies; it’s about violence against women, and the men who enable it.”
― The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
― The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
“You know, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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