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“I was just a fragile thing in a sharp world, like every other girl is before they meet themselves, before they meet their child and know what it means to be tethered.”

Please let this be five stars

Copper’s uncle invented mansplaining

“For the average American, it’s three hours and fifteen minutes. We touch our phones 2,617 times every twenty-four hours.”

Is 39 really considered middle aged?

No wonder all the other mothers hate florence. She is insufferable #notlikeothermums

“No offense, but I could be at home right now with a good book.”

my inner thoughts at every social occasion

“The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the time to think of places that welcome everyone and don’t charge any money for that warm embrace.”

Support your local library folks!

“If, on the other hand, we rush over with an activated or dysregulated limbic system, the child’s limbic system is going to respond with the same level of intensity—it reads our energy as unsafe. Adults with calm limbic systems are safest for children, and their limbic systems know it.”

I hate doug

“But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids’ lives are their own. From day one you are handing it back to them bit by bit, until they move on.”

😭

‘Hungry Paul disappeared back into the cubby hole and removed a die from another set, the board game equivalent of cannibalism’

Picking up the next book in a series directly after finishing the previous book? Who am I?

It’s giving Fredrik Backman vibes

“Our engagement with technology often keeps us in a state of perpetual sedation where our senses are dulled, our awareness of our own well-being and that of others gets hazy, and we don’t realise how accustomed to connectedness we’ve become. We weren’t meant for constant connectivity. We are limited beings who need the benefit of rest and regularly powering down, sometimes for extended periods.”

It’s not a holiday without an Emily Henry book