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21 " It was confusing for Olivia because she was so attracted to Matt in so many ways, while Ben seemed so nice, maybe too nice, and, even worse, predictable. But the more she thought about it, the more Olivia realized that those were actually good things for a man to be. That she deserved to be with a man who would be kind to her and whose motivations were clear and rational. She’d been surprised to find herself thinking of Ben ever since. "
― Susie Orman Schnall , The Subway Girls
22 " She liked to think of herself as spontaneous, but she’d never really had an opportunity to test out the theory. "
23 " No one had ever done anything like this for her. Took care of her. She had to admit, though she was staunchly in favor of taking care of herself, that it felt kind of nice. "
24 " Just last week I thought that if I lost my job at The Osborne Agency, it would be a disastrous, end-of-the-world situation, but now I realize I was afraid of losing something else, something I honestly don’t care about anymore. "
25 " Let her tell him how she felt and how she just couldn’t do it anymore. How she couldn’t enable her father, how she couldn’t rescue her mother, how she couldn’t keep putting herself last in a trio of dysfunction. How she realized that the only way to heal was to extricate herself entirely from the one relationship that was supposed to be the most pure and protective. But it wasn’t. "
26 " She realized after they’d been discussing her family for a while that being able to share herself with someone might have been what she needed all along to absolve her of her guilt, her shame, and her uncertainty about whether she was making the right decisions. "
27 " I never wanted to be a mother,” Rose said wistfully. “I thought that because I had a terrible mother, I would be a terrible mother.”“That’s how I feel,” Olivia said.“Don’t make the same decision I made. I actually think the opposite can be true, meaning that if you had a terrible mother, you are that much more conscious of being a wonderful mother yourself. "
28 " If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that I need to make my life happen for me, not let it happen to me. "