Brenda Rothert Quotes

#1. She was like me; too wounded to be blindly optimistic anymore.

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#2. And then one day, one of my daughters sat me down and told me that even though he was gone, I wasn't. That it was time to find a new life for myself.

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#3. It made me wonder if home really was a place, or if it was more about who was there waiting for you at the end of the day.

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#4. You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point where you're ready to use that key to break out of the jail you've put yourself in. Only you can set yourself free.

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#5. I watched him, mesmerized. The ink of his tattoos bespoke the path he'd walked to get to me. A skull and crossbones on his hip. His daughter's initial on one side of his chest and the words 'Sine metu' on the other. I'd learned Latin in college and I knew it meant 'without fear'.

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#6. Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real.

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#7. Friends tell you what you want to hear," Dani said. "Real friends tell you what you need to hear.

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#8. pushing her long, dark hair out of her face. "But what's the point? If you're into him enough to sleep with him, why would

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#9. It was a silly idea. Homemade brownies for the bouncer who'd pulled Eric off of me? It was all I could think of to thank him, because I was pretty sure Hallmark didn't have a 'thanks for saving me from sexual assault' section of greeting cards. - Viv

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#10. Let the anger and betrayal boil over and you'll feel stronger. You'll be stronger.

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#11. find forgiveness for other people's actions as much as our own.

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#12. Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn't get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you'd be flat on your back again.

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#13. I thought losing Robert was the hardest thing I'd ever been through. But it wasn't. Moving on from it was.

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#14. No phone. She shook her head with frustration at how utterly and completely reliant she was on the thing. Her train left in seven minutes, and running - in heels - was the only way she'd make it. If she didn't fall and break any bones on the way. "The charger!" she cried,

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#15. I'd only watch the Kardashians and the Real Housewives if they were in a Hunger Games-style death match. Sitting

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#16. A bitch is a bitch. I think that's inscribed in hieroglyphics on a pyramid somewhere. And hotness does not make up for it.

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#17. Admitting your fears to yourself is the first step in cleansing them from your body. And it's the hardest part.

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#18. Because going out with an attractive intelligent man who is obviously ass over teakettle for you would be so awful?

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#19. The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us. We'd survived them, found each other, and discovered that sometimes, from darkness can come light.

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#20. And if you're in trouble, say, 'It's hot in here.'
When we hear those words from either of you, we're busting inside the place. So for fuck's sake, don't say that just because it's warm in his house.

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#21. Can't you just trust me? Let me hold you up when you hurt. Whatever I am, I want to share it with you.

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#22. a low-cut sleeveless

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#23. Yes. And yes, the carpet matches the drapes. I've only been asked that like three dozen times by hockey players, so don't consider yourself original.

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#24. summer sky, full of promise. Few colors could convey such a wide range of emotions just based on shade. Pale blue felt light and serene. Bright blue was bold and striking. The insistent blare of a car horn

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#25. Satisfying you is my job, and I take my job very seriously

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