We, as women, absorb it so others don’t have to. But then one day we stand back, and we say, enough, I have done my bit, let another person take this. So we pass it on, and the next woman steps forward and it all begins again. All our
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just started reading this book because I see it will be an Apple Series next month.This passage gives nothing away about the book, but I love it and it struck a cord in me as a woman.
“Trying to figure out what happened to me isn’t important. It’s what I do with what I’ve learned that counts.”
― Wish You Were Here
― Wish You Were Here
“You can’t grieve something if you don’t let yourself get close enough to care.”
― Wish You Were Here
― Wish You Were Here
“Until we understand how we reached this place, America will remain a country where getting addicted is far easier than securing treatment.”
― Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
― Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
“There are two ways of looking at walls. Either they are built to keep people you fear out or they are built to keep people you love in.”
― Wish You Were Here
― Wish You Were Here
“There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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