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“Why do you think we never got together?” Sadie sat next to Sam on the bed. “Sammy,” she said. “We were together. You must know that. When I’m honest with myself, the most important parts of me were yours.”
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Martha’s not my child, I’d say, as if I was joking, as if my feelings weren’t hurt. I would say: She’s my roommate. Now I can say, she was not my child, but she was the first member of my family. Martha was my best friend and my witness. I had been on my own for so long, swimming upstream, and now I had a partner in it. There’s a bright line betwee... See more
Jean • My best friend and my witness
Rachel free from him was. She had abandoned him. She’d been cruel to him. She had denied him love and respect and self-esteem.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
She’d had her eye on who William would become, after the next job offer or once he had a PhD after his name. He didn’t blame his wife for this conditional acceptance; he’d grown up with parents who’d never accepted him at all.