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1 " She'd read somewhere that if you gave your brain tasks to do it stopped overthinking. She'd given herself a lot of tasks. Sometimes she felt like a robot. It seemed like a lifetime since she'd felt human. "
― Sarah Morgan , How to Keep a Secret
2 " I’m too tired to cope with a teenager. I thought the terrible twos were supposed to be the worst age and now I’m discovering it’s sixteen. "
3 " Sex was a reasonable alternative to burning fossil fuels. Maybe she should teach it in class. Hey, kids, there is solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy and sex. Ask your parents about that one. "
4 " No one had ever told her that it was possible to be an adult and still feel as terrified as a child. "
5 " Not every imperfection needs fixing...Sometimes you have to accept the flaw and live with it. "
6 " I don't suppose any of us really knows what we'd do until we're actually in that position ourselves. It's pretty easy to judge from the outside, but not so easy when it's your life. "
7 " Secrets, she discovered, were clutter. They filled the space inside you and gathered dust. They stopped you connecting fully with people. "
8 " She shifted closer to him and felt something hard dig into her hip. “Is that your phone?” “No, it's my giant penis and the reason you married me. "
9 " People are capable of so much more than they think they are. It's possible to rekindle relationships you thought were lost. Build a new life when the old one was dead. Learn new habits. Break old ones. "
10 " And hope, Lauren thought, kept life moving. Hope that things would improve, that sadness would pass, that you'd live feeling you'd love and live. Hope that the few fragile threads of this new life won't be snapped before they can strengthen. "