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She told him she’d fallen in love with him with the taste of butter on her lips that first morning, but it was just a story. She had no idea when she’d fallen in love with him. But people needed stories to make sense of things,
He is not a kind man, but he can pretend at kindness adequately
She liked to be good at things.
Getting noticed is never good for girls like her, peculiar girls who say the wrong thing and walk the wrong way and don’t want the things they’re supposed to want.
pregnancy wasn’t a promise.
there was still utility in being invisible,
Dissatisfaction is the engine of creativity.
a proud dynasty of squirrels
They’d argued about the tracking apps a lot, over the years.
Someday she will show them that she doesn’t belong to them at all.
When had she decided that it was better to be miserable than to be alone, she wondered.
“I’m married,” she told him. “And does he make you happy, Emma Palmer?” Logan asked, jokingly. “He makes me feel less alone,” she said.
cursing her unborn and clearly ungrateful child.
No one expects a fat woman in a paisley tunic and Crocs to be strong,
