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I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.
“I realized that hopeful feeling was just that: a feeling. and feelings keep you up at night, and they ake you feel sick when you're perfectly healthy, and they life. I didn't want to convince myself of a false truth just to feel okay.”
― Please Don't Go Before I Get Better
― Please Don't Go Before I Get Better
“An early desire for nonmotherhood is seen as the primary deviation a girl can take from her path toward becoming a socially acceptable woman, and it is often thought to be something that will change, or align, with time.”
― Regretting Motherhood
― Regretting Motherhood
“How wonderful, to walk half drunk with a Lemonsoda on a muggy night like this around the gleaming slate cobblestones of Rome with someone's arm around me.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“You're alone, as I'm alone, and the cruelest thing is that finding each other and saying let us be alone together won't solve a thing.”
― Enigma Variations
― Enigma Variations
“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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