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Ida Pastore
is on page 152 of 336
“but it was implied she was referring to her saying married to Dad so that Saša and I would have a normal family. A sacrifice I was grateful for because I couldn't imagine being a child from a broken home, not in a time and society that still stigmatized divorce. But now I see the truth neither of us could see back then. Our home wasn't any less broken just because we lived in one household”
— Mar 11, 2026 07:41PM
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Ida Pastore
is on page 289 of 336
“İt sems to me we've always been, and always will be, two islands bathing i the same sea with our backs to each other-him facing the sun, me facing the moon, both of us resenting the light the other got. But one of those lights has gone out already, and now the other one is fading too. I guess where it leaves us, then, is in the dark”
— Mar 12, 2026 01:04PM
Ida Pastore
is on page 243 of 336
“I retreated from him without asking what he thought or wanted, turned myself into water and slipped through his hands.
But he failed to cup them”
— Mar 11, 2026 09:36PM
But he failed to cup them”
Ida Pastore
is on page 188 of 336
“It wasn't that I didn't have anything to tell her.
It was that I was afraid that if I did speak, she still wouldn't listen.”
— Mar 11, 2026 08:31PM
It was that I was afraid that if I did speak, she still wouldn't listen.”
Ida Pastore
is on page 149 of 336
“Big fat tears came and went, rolled and rolled, but there was no one to be heartbroken for me. I was that tree, felled inside the forest, that no one had heard fall. That tree that didn't make a sound”
— Mar 11, 2026 07:39PM
