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The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. —VIRGINIA WOOLF
“There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said. “And it will look a lot different once Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.”
The truth is this: that I am not a good daughter. I am a traitor, a wolf among sheep; there is something different about me
the courage to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.
It was not that I had done something wrong so much as that I existed in the wrong way.
when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she had been, she became that mother for the first time.
