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Isma Shaheen
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“Rather than asking him to repeat himself, I waited. It was a trick I learned from my father, letting the silence thicken until it was suffocating.”
― The Echo Wife
― The Echo Wife
“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
― The Last Thing He Told Me
― The Last Thing He Told Me
“Getting caught in a lie is so much worse than saying nothing.”
― The Echo Wife
― The Echo Wife
“The internal battle between doing the right thing and doing the honest thing and doing the tempting thing was an ongoing one,”
― The Echo Wife
― The Echo Wife
“Why would you ever cut the blooms off the rosebush?
It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.”
― The Echo Wife
It was one of the only truly useful things she ever taught me: Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.”
― The Echo Wife
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