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“I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me.”
― Paula Stokes, Vicarious

“Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They’d made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.”
― Jonathan Lynn, The Complete Yes Minister

“Our “protective bubbles”—our houses, our cars, our friends, our online identities—might make us feel secure, but most of it’s just an illusion. It’s easy to get hurt, just like it’s easy to hurt other people.”
― Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened

“Enough with the apologies. I can’t just forgive seventeen years of hurt all at once. But you can do better, all right? From today onward, do better. Not just for me. For my mom too.”
― Paula Stokes, Hidden Pieces

“I get it. Traveling halfway across the world to run into the boy you grew up with, getting back together after years apart—that’s an epic fucking fairytale. I don’t blame you for being seduced by it. I guess I just thought what we had was better. You know, because it was real.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“It’s no small thing—ending someone else’s life. There should be some sort of gravity to that, shouldn’t there? My insides are heavy, but it has nothing to do with what I did. It is only about what I have lost.”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

“We can’t define people by their worst actions.”
― Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde