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I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard
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“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.”
― We Are Called to Rise
― We Are Called to Rise
“But sometimes you have to act out of line, I suppose. Sometimes you have to take a chance if you want something badly enough.”
― The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
― The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
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Lucy’s 2025 Year in Books
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