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“Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Divorced? I’m a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don’t divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make the difficult choices. But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“You know,” she said, “when you get to my age, the pile of regrets becomes so huge it can obscure the view terribly.” She kept her eyes fixed on the horizon”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“Love was complicated. It didn’t disappear because someone did something horrible, something you didn’t agree with. It lived there, with the disappointment, the disapproval. You had to figure out how to hold both of them in your heart, or you’d lose everyone, everything.”
― Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

“We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.”
― Paul Kalanithi

“I was his wife and a witness.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“In many ways the river taught me about life: that wealth and poverty are in proximity, but always separated; that people don’t like what they can’t control, preferring instead to reward you only when you fulfill their narrative about who you are supposed to be;”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“that there are seasons of lack and plenty, of drought and flooding.”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“I was to be great, but I was to do it modestly. “Está bien, Mama,” I replied. “I’ll be the best.” I couldn’t have imagined all the ways her belief would continually empower me, and all the ways the pressure of that belief would eventually debilitate me.”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“And if U.S. history has taught us anything, a police officer’s “discretion” is”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“often rooted in racism, whether their own or that of the racist institution signing their checks.”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“It seemed to me that the institution of religion was as fickle and divisive as the institution that enacts anti-immigration laws, both separating families on earth as it is in heaven.”
― Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, My Side of the River

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“She hides behind her devotion the way a terrorist hides behind his ideals—”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: Everyone Deserves the Chance to Fly

“Once upon a time we lived in the dark. All of us. We weren’t alone”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: Everyone Deserves the Chance to Fly

“And there are many other therapies built around teaching adults to reparent themselves.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It is impossible to predict what might happen in a world where you don’t know the rules.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“As long as the sheets of paper covered in my handwriting lie on this table”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Because if you were my wife you would be my world. Everything starts with you and ends with you. Anything else is just the stuff that happens in the middle.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“if you’re with someone who doesn’t speak your language”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“now that she had succeeded in accomplishing what she had wished”
― Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

“Maybe it doesn’t matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Our bodies are the texts that carry the memories and therefore remembering is no less than reincarnation.”
― Javier Zamora, Solito

“Mom likes to call them my “angels,” but I worry that takes away their humanity and their nonreligious capacity for love and compassion they showed a stranger.”
― Javier Zamora, Solito

“That wonderful girl! That beauty! That world of wealth and social position she lived in!”
― Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy