Mary Frances Marlow
https://www.goodreads.com/mfrances92
I know it is a small thing, but when your life has shrunk as much as mine has, small things take up more space than they should.
“People always say not to forget because then history will repeat itself. But maybe history will repeat itself anyway, and forgetting is how we bear it.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“And I don't know if it's bad like abuse. Abuse is much easier to identify when it's not in your own kitchen.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow. Louise Erdrich, LaRose”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“It was our pain that pulled us together like magnets, that medicinal click of solidarity between two hurting people. But as powerful as pain might be, it was never going to keep us together.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“But salvation is not an erasure, it's a redistribution of pressure.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
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Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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