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She loved his brain and his manners and his spindly body, tall and frail, devoid of musculature.
😍iykyk
she had no idea how to be a parent. None. She knew only, thanks to her own parents, how not to be one.
Same girl, same
That they were two adults plus three children, made concurrently. That they were five humans cohabiting. That they were not, and never had been, a family.
Daileys all the way
Sometimes he told himself that their marriage worked because each of them ceded the authority of their respective spheres to the other. The fact that they didn’t crowd each other or push their way into each other’s daily affairs, that was a good thing. Wasn’t it? And
It works for us
I have given too much, our mother thought. And she had asked far, far too little in return.
Great reminder-- for every female on. the. planet!
She had a quiver full of Fuck You’s and enough spleen to send each and every one of them on its merry way.
This is lyrical prose at it's FINEST 😂
You have a lot of shit to work out, obviously. And it’s not that I don’t sympathize, because I do. I think you’re a sweet, wonderful person, but there’s a seriously big hole in you, and if you don’t figure out what that is you’re just going to start stuffing it with, I don’t know, a crazy religion or some other bullshit.”
I wish someone had grabbed me and said this when I was 18, nose to nose and eye to eye.
I resolved to be more like this, myself: not to speak until I was ready. Obviously, people waited for you.
