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“Just leave. He hurts you. Walk away. And they assume we’re not strong. That we let people walk all over us. We’re passive. We let people control us.’ She shakes her head. ‘I’m none of those things. And I’m not the only woman in this situation who is strong.”
― Kathryn Croft, Two Mothers

“Do you like goldfish?’ she asked. ‘I do,’ I said. ‘There is something very restful about them. I can watch them for hours. How they silently glide around in their watery world.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“still but if you move towards it, the beautiful creature will dart away. And this was a gazelle I was talking to.”
― Ruskin Bond, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

“Children ran away. I knew this. They ran away for attention or because they were upset or frightened. They ran away because they were bored or because they didn’t get their own way. They came home.”
― C.R. Howell, The Woman in My Home