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Isma Shaheen
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“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
“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.”
― 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
“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
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