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“My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.”

The doctor and patient travel the road to recovery hand in hand, but the primary part – which is always the deciding factor – is played by the patient, with his will for life and the strengths of his body.”

The heart is the seat of feelings, not reason."

“The truth is, they’re all so much better off now that their parents have been murdered. No long years – perhaps decades – of waiting for their inheritance. No more jumping to their father’s tune, no endless years of depressing,

how they used to turn on each other as children. Relationships and patterns are established early; they don’t change. Family dynamics play out again and again.”the

“But they would never have done it together. They don’t do anything together.

“We proceed believing that the movement of our legs is our own, but it isn’t so; there’s a small crowd that’s shaped us, moving up those steps with us, and the steadiness of our legs simply stems from conformity.”

It’s hard to suffer politely

How did my life get to the point where I have zero friends? It didn’t used to be that way. Or maybe it was. Maybe I’ve always been this way.”

“knows. I never told the police what I knew about Arnold Kellogg. I kept her secret. After all, she’s my sister. And you never know when information like that will come in handy.”

“Don’t be stupid next time.”

“If she were pretty, she could get away with more. But she’s not

My grandmother used to hate how much I looked like him. Sometimes she would stare at me and shake her head in disgust. You have the devil in you, Nora.”

“Dad always says that if you’re going to do something wrong, at least be smart enough not to let anybody see you do it.”

He is a narcissist and a psychopath, who likely killed at least thirty women without a trace of remorse. He is insane. He is a monster. He is also my father.”

“Some people say Death's heart is as dead and black as a piece of coal, but that is not true. Beneath his inky cloak, Death's heart is as red as the most beautiful sunset and beats with a great love of life.

When a woman loves, she does foolish things...and very dangerous things too...and maybe delicious things...When a woman loves, she might do nothing at all...she might give in to her imagination...and feel guilty.”

Fiction from A to Z. Where a child's courage is the wind that carries them to discovery.

“I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world. I once shared an office with a woman who had covered the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kitties; she was the most bigoted, spiteful champion of the death penalty with whom it has ever been my misfortune to share a kettle.

the last 50 pages are ridiculously funny,! Riley must be trolling
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“It’s possible to love someone while hating something they’ve done.”

“was like my mother, always feeling too much, wanting too much, needing too much. Like my father, my sister had wants and needs, too, but they were surface pleasures. Cars and clothes and societal approval

“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them

even prisons could appear lovely if lit the right way

Here, we give young women accused of terrible deeds the benefit of the doubt.”

It's possible to love someone while hating something they've done

“You’re never alone when there’s a book nearby

My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me

“This society hasn't changed one bit. People who don't fit into the village are expelled: men who don't hunt, women who don't give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn't try to fit in can expect to be meddled with, coerced, and ultimately banished from the village.”

“We’d all be better off going through this world without having high expectations for the people who share our blood