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“We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
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“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
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