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Hugging her was the only way I felt like I could protect her.
My jaw dropped, but I wasn’t sure why.
“You know that’s not how things work. There’s even more pressure to say yes after agreeing to meet. You can’t use passive aggression to force me to marry someone.”
He smiled at me. The audacity!
And not a kind, pardon-the-awkwardness-this-wasn’t-how-we-intended-to-meet smile. But a flashy, charming, cocky as hell smile. The kind that made women drop their panties in a split second. The kind he probably expected would make me drop my panties.
Not that a woman should be labeled as “bad” or “unworthy” because she wasn’t
“proper.”
That double standard alwa...
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“To my girls. May fate never tear us apart. Thank you for supporting me through life in general.”
“I wish you wouldn’t care so much about what others think.”
“But you’d get flak for that. The world is changing, and the older generation needs to keep up or shut up.”
“Love is enough. It’s society’s views and old-world thinking that broke everything.”
Who wants to marry someone just because parents and society tells us we need to, or because we’re getting too old? Who wants to be tied down to the same man forever? Who wants to have to answer to a man? Who wants to be trapped?” Who wanted to be hurt when they were let down by their man? But there was a critical, heartbreaking question beneath it all: who wanted to marry a broken woman?
“Don’t let them get into your inner calm, okay? They are no one, not worth an ounce of your worry. You, my darling, are an intellectual queen, and they are but mindless peasants.”
“You’re worth everything in the world,”
“You’ll make the right decision, but don’t give in just because friends and family and a man want you to stay. You have to do what’s best for you.”
