Swan Light
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be complicated, even in a little place like this, and sometimes it’s just as important to search above the surface as below it. Learn about the people too. Not just the wrecks they leave behind.”
“Words may not physically harm you but they stay in your psyche like tiny barbed spikes. ‘As I said, she was in our adoption group. After the introductory”
― Her New Best Friend
― Her New Best Friend
“Few people understood them. For the first time she wondered if this was all there was for people like her . . . and Jack. People who had given everything to their work and then ended up alone for one reason or another. Alone and in pieces.”
― The Last Lie Told
― The Last Lie Told
“When I looked up, he was about fifty feet away, and even from that distance I could tell I was in trouble. He seemed sort of average at first—brown hair, lean build, soaked white running shirt—but the closer he got, the more I realized just how edible he was. I noticed the shift in the muscles of his legs as he ran, the way his hair bounced slightly, how he pressed his lips together in concentration as he neared us. I looked over my shoulder, attempting to waggle my eyebrows at Jenna and give her the secret best friend code for “hot guy up ahead,” but she had stopped to tie her shoes. And when I turned back around, it was too late.”
― A Love Letter to Whiskey
― A Love Letter to Whiskey
“I’m no damsel in distress, trust me, I’ve survived a lot more than most, but you can’t underestimate the overwhelming power of someone swooping in to save you after a lifetime of having to save yourself.”
― The Family Game
― The Family Game
“takes everything in me not to look back, not to run. There is no end to the number of rules women are supposed to follow at night regarding their safety—be observant, stay off your phone, adjust your routine so you don’t always take the same route, wear comfortable shoes that you can run in and carry mace or a Swiss army knife. Or better yet, don’t walk alone at night, especially if you’ve been drinking, because alcohol lowers your awareness and your reaction time and makes you an easy target—and yet men can do any damn thing they’d like and it’s fine.”
― She's Not Sorry
― She's Not Sorry
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