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When you’re young and you’ve known nothing but peace, you assume there will always be time for everything.
“It’s because mothers—and, honestly, women in general—are conditioned from birth to feel guilty about something. We always think things are our fault. We always feel the need to apologize: For being too much or too little. Too loud or too quiet. Too driven or too content.”
― All the Dangerous Things
― All the Dangerous Things
“but I chose to believe everything that came out of Kenny’s mouth. I’d invested so many years of my life in him that I couldn’t admit that I was wrong. I was terrified of looking like a fool.”
― The Kept Woman
― The Kept Woman
“Time quickens the older you get, as if the universe is trying to push you toward the finish line, to make room for the younger, the stronger, to mark your brief place in history and move on.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“Abuse is always with you. It’s in the DNA of your shadow. You turn around, and it’s never not there. All you can do is learn to live with it.”
― The Last Widow
― The Last Widow
“When he comes crawling to you in tears the next morning, you don’t actually believe him anymore. But now this is just what you do. The same way you fix the hole in your dress with a safety pin or tape up the crack in a window. That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem,”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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