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The Wives
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What did people do before emojis? It seems like the only reasonable way to lighten a loaded sentence.
“I’m holding everyone accountable, because it takes a village to put someone in a mental institution.”
― The Wives
― The Wives
“What a pity men didn’t gossip about their wives the way women did about their husbands, then they would soon learn that their own wife wasn’t the only one with shortcomings….”
― The Trouble Makers
― The Trouble Makers
“If you went on neglecting your own tastes like this, did you, in the end, cease to have any tastes? Cease, in fact, to be a person at all, and become merely a labour-saving gadget around the house?”
― The Hours Before Dawn
― The Hours Before Dawn
“Because while musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren’t. And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special - it’s just annoying.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Fighting was the sandpaper that smoothed out the first years of a relationship. Sure, there was still plenty of lifelong grit after that, but the fighting stripped everything down, let the other person know what was important to you.”
― The Wives
― The Wives
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