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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
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“that sometimes, the roads we don’t know we’re walking are the ones that lead us to exactly where we’re meant to be.”
― The Paris Daughter
― The Paris Daughter
“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
“I remember that first time I squirted her, she panicked and ran to me for comfort. She clung to me, and I petted her until she calmed down. That’s how I was with Kenny. That’s how you were with Angie.” Amanda said this with conviction. “It’s the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm.”
― The Kept Woman
― The Kept Woman
“people regret the things they didn’t do far more than the mistakes they actually made. It’s inaction that causes you to lie awake into the early hours of the morning, second-guessing your own judgment. It’s the what-ifs and should-haves that crouch down deep in that buried chamber of your soul. They latch on tighter; their teeth are sharper.”
― Looking for Jane
― Looking for Jane
“OUR LIVES AND the lives of those we love merge to create a river whose current carries us forward from our beginning to our end. Because we are only one part of the whole, the river each of us remembers is different, and there are many versions of the stories we tell about the past. In all of them there is truth, and in all of them a good deal of innocent misremembering.”
― The River We Remember
― The River We Remember
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