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“If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Looking at it backward it was obvious all along.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“That was how she’d once viewed her perfect life: as a series of bad smells and unfulfilled duties, petty worries and late bills.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“I was protective of my antisocial persona in many ways. It felt safe to be invisible. No one had any expectations of me, and after eighteen years living in my parentsâ€� house it was liberating not to be expected to do anything or be anything. So it was ambiguous, this feeling. On the one hand I wanted to be like these golden girls. On the other I felt far superior to them.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are for ever.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“Other mothers lose children without losing their husbands, too.â€� “You didn’t lose me, Laurel. I’m still yours. I’ll always be yours.â€� “Well, that’s not strictly true, is it?â€� He sighs again. “Where it counts,â€� he says. “As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don’t need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are forever.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
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