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“Remind your boy that all bodies are good bodies because they keep us alive, and allow us to do the things we enjoy, such as playing sports, mucking about with friends and hugging the people we love. Assure your boy that if he is living a healthy and active life then his body is exactly how it is supposed to be.”
Maybe if I repeat this to my boys enough time then I’ll start believing it for myself too.

“That's what her husband would have asked. A bad habit of hers, a product of being married for a decade-always imagining what her husband might say. Even when he's not around. Especially when he's not around. Phoebe didn't think she'd end up being a woman like this. But if the last few years have taught her anything, it's that you really can't ever know who you are going to become.”

“It's already been too much conversation.
Too much pretending to be normal”

“Phoebe can't identify one thing that is ugly about the bride, which might be the one thing that's ugly about her.”
We start really well.

The classic dead wife plot expedient is really old and trite.

Such a man’s book this is.