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Nobody to hold up a mirror to make me see whom I had become, or to see the person I’d been who had never really believed she could be anything more than ordinary. My mother had once told me that she didn’t know that particular sorrow, the
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“Happiness.” Grace rose, smoothing her skirt. “It’s a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“Wasn’t she? “No woman is anyone’s ‘other half.’ We are all entire people. Completely whole, and totally unique. But sometimes when you put two very different whole people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, we were more than just the combination of our ingredients, we were the whole damn cake.”
― Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
― Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
“grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there. A part of you that you couldn’t wish or pray or drink or exercise away. She was used to him being so close to gone that gone was almost desirable—no one wanted to watch someone they loved suffer.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“It is not an easy thing to do, walk away from what you’ve built and save yourself.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“there was one thing she’d learned in all of this, it was that life—and love—can be gone any second. When you had it, you needed to hang on with all your strength and savor every second.”
― Winter Garden
― Winter Garden
Renata’s 2025 Year in Books
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