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“She’d once heard them described as the whispers—the moments that are trying to tell you something isn’t right here. The problem is that some women aren’t listening to what their lives are trying to tell them. They don’t hear the whispers until they’re looking back with hindsight. Feeling blindsided. Desperate to see the truth for what it is.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Whispers

“Your unconditional belief in me felt magical. I desperately wanted to prove to myself that I was as good as you thought I was.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“and every second you don’t look, your mind just makes it worse because in the end, what you don’t see is always scarier than what you do.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“We’re all entitled to have certain expectations of each other and of ourselves. Motherhood is no different. We all expect to have, and to marry, and to be, good mothers.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push