“We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
“I kept thinking how the five of us had had a really unhealthy family, but I saw then too how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another’s hearts.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
“A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“When women lose themselves, the world loses its way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
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