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"Nadia had read online about abortion pills, forty dollars delivered to your door in a plain brown box. She would've ordered them herself if Luke hadn't found her the money for the surgery. You didn't know how desperate you could be until you were."
This moment perfectly sums up the importance of support, education, and access to care. Reading this right now feels so heartbreaking and timely. RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"These girls are so afraid to tell someone they're pregnant, they get these pills cheap online and no one knows what's in them. She would've died if she hadn't had enough sense to get help."

Actually laughing out loud. Books don't make me do that often.

"...it's so hateful and sexist and ageist when you think about it. 'Old wives' tale' means something that's untrue or not scientifically proven. 'Old wives' tale' is basically a way of saying ignore everything that dumb old woman says."

"I hadn't thought of it that way," she said.

"I hadn't thought of it that way either. Not until I became an old wife myself."

Officially giving up on this. Too slow for my tastes.

Will's comment is giving me a good chuckle!!

"...the less we sleep as we grow older, the faster our brains age. [...] Researchers found that lack of sleep in older adults increased the pace of brain-ventricle enlargement and decreased cognitive performance, the very markers of brain aging associated with the onset of Alzheimer's." This is just one of the thousand reasons in this book that getting at least 8 hours of sleep a night is essential!

Getting gruesome...

"It'll never cease to amaze me how in such a small span of time an entire life can change drastically." So true...

Love the message and this made me crack up: "...men that aren't weight phobic like to have a body to love, not just a body. The only reason men have become weight phobic is because of TV and magazines. You're a confident and self-assured woman, as you should be. Stay that way, and if a man doesn't want you for who you are then fuck him, and I don't mean literally."

"My knees trembled and my heart pounded. It felt like everyone could hear it, just like in Poe's "The Tell-Tale heart.""

"He said that when he saw me standing at the cash register ringing up a customer, he couldn't take his eyes off me. Needless to say, when I heard that, my heart raced like a motor at the Indy 500."

Well that escalated quickly... #intense #cantstopreading #wontstopreading

Philosophical musings from an imaginary friend: "But what was special about me? I wondered. I guess you can't always know what those things are about yourself. Maybe because you're too close to see it, like a flower that looks down and thinks it is just a stem."

"She'd come away from sweating buckets in advanced ballet, and she'd be all glowy and dewy and full of life like this was a tampon commercial, when all I wanted to do was to dunk my head in a cold sink of water and hug my knees till the shakes stopped." I love this line. Exactly how I felt after cheerleading practice when I saw the other girls!

Already engrossed in this novel!