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the priest from Tjörn told me that I would burn if I did not cast my mind back over the sin of my life and pray for forgiveness. As though prayer could simply pluck sin out.
But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
How do men ever see women like me?
God knows I have met enough men to know that once weaned off the breast they begin to lie through their teeth.
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. No matter how much you try to live a godly life, if you make a mistake in this valley, it’s never forgotten. No matter if you tried to do what was best. No matter if your innermost self whispers, ‘I am not as you say!’—how other people think of you determines who you are.”
People around here don’t let you forget your misdeeds. They think them the only things worth writing down.”
For the first time in my life, someone saw me, and I loved him because he made me feel I was enough.
