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Jeffrey

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“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

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“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: childhood, mothers

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“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: archetype, childhood, motherhood, projection, psychology

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