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“She never became a real person. You might as well have made her up. And it's easier to love a made up person than a real one.”
― Gabrielle Korn

“I am harshest with my mother because I was taught, inadvertently, to be harshest with other women.”
― K. Chiucarello, Nanny Nanny

“Success could never slice into you the way failure could. Pride could never find your guts the way shame could. Shame broke you down into rocks and then into pebbles and then into sand. Until one day you reached down into your guts that's all you felt, dry sand, that's all you were made of. All that was left to do was grab handfuls of it and fling it into the eyes of the ones who still saw you.”
― Che Yeun, Tailbone

“A garden can be anywhere where something grows and dies and changes, anywhere there's a little beauty to cling to.”
― Nina LaCour, Meet Me in the Garden