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“Miss Bean told me that as a girl she had many suitors, and if she did not marry, it was more from procrastination than from being passed over.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“Do you like goldfish?’ she asked. ‘I do,’ I said. ‘There is something very restful about them. I can watch them for hours. How they silently glide around in their watery world.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“Just leave. He hurts you. Walk away. And they assume we’re not strong. That we let people walk all over us. We’re passive. We let people control us.’ She shakes her head. ‘I’m none of those things. And I’m not the only woman in this situation who is strong.”
― Kathryn Croft, Two Mothers

“shame was a useless emotion, preventing people from making amends because they believed themselves unworthy of forgiveness.”
― C.R. Howell, The Woman in My Home