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“Together, they were quiet, skulls listing towards one another. Even in death, they craved touch.”

"I wish you knew how hard it is to be a mama. It's the hardest thing in the whole world. It's a promise you make to be perfect and make no mistakes. And to put yourself second until you die. It mutates into this horrible burden. A weight you have to carry forever."

"I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt."

"I was a changeling, like the boys from school and the other children, constantly shifting while our parents wanted us, so badly, to stay frozen."

"Laughter and love came in abundance but it spoilt them."

"A foetus in a belly couldn't be selfish. But a human child could be. To Eden, the potential of who I'd become was so much more beautiful than the way I spoke back."

"It's the thing she's best at, making people love her. Fall in love with her. She turns them into something broken. Something that only wants and something that can't think. But she falls out of love so easily/"

“You have to try to put good into the world, otherwise everyone’s putting bad into the world. Someone has to swallow their pride and make things okay.”

"Growing up hurts."

“Things are forgotten all the time. Good and bad. We’ve forgotten all the lives people have lived and all the quiet folk, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t important.”