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“What?” I could be as brave as anyone in my own fantasies.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 192-192 2020-08-27 00:53:11
I wasn’t sure I wanted to be healed. I liked surviving. Others were expected to live year to year without incident, but my years were accomplishments. Each birthday meant I’d done a good job staying alive. What would matter now, I wondered, if I didn’t need to work hard at living?
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 300-303 2020-08-27 01:01:14
I was sorry to be the cause of all their worry, but what I couldn’t explain, not even to Luella, was that I didn’t mind having the hole in my heart. I viewed the world through that small, damaged portal. It was a weakness I sharpened my strength upon. From behind its protective edges, I could be brave. Just like Mama’s disfigured hands were proof of her strength, my open heart was proof of mine. If only people could see it, they’d know how strong I was.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 323-326 2020-08-27 01:03:17
That’s the problem with being worshipped. You do whatever you must to keep the attention.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 908-908 2020-08-31 23:57:22
“Life can be ugly,” she said. “You must keep your imagination alive. That way you will have somewhere else to look if things turn unbearable.”
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 68 | Location 991-993 2020-09-01 00:05:20
Life, as far as I can tell, is a series of events best left untold, and yet here we are.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 124 | Location 1863-1864 2020-09-07 23:46:55
But life’s a blind business, none of us can see up ahead, and none of us would move forward if we could.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 143 | Location 2150-2151 2020-09-08 00:05:27
There was so much hope in that dress. Maybe a little hope is all it takes to blind us.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 143 | Location 2153-2153 2020-09-08 00:05:34
“Reminding ourselves is the only way to make sure we don’t forget to hate the opposite sex.” She pumped her fist in the air.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 175 | Location 2671-2672 2020-09-10 00:43:46
I wondered if losing one’s children, and losing one’s mind, looked the same in a mother.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 184 | Location 2824-2825 2020-09-13 01:03:37
“It’s a man puts a woman in your situation, and yet women are the only ones left paying for the sin. Not a fair world, but it shakes out as it does.”
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 198 | Location 3031-3032 2020-09-17 00:36:45
It sets the young at ease to know their family history is made up of mistakes. Makes them feel less flawed.”
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 213 | Location 3281-3282 2020-09-17 00:50:13
Over time Luella would discover, as I had, as her daughter would, that we can’t outrun ourselves.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 219 | Location 3389-3390 2020-09-17 00:55:56
I tried to pull strength from the woman next to me. She strode with her shoulders thrust back and her head high. There was a challenge in her eye, as if she’d been prepared and waiting for this day. I thought of the twins who had marched for women’s rights, for unions. They’d been fighting a whole city of men, the same ones who locked them up and burnt them to death. Now, here was this woman, this stranger, taking up the fight for them. I moved closer to her, hoping her strength might infect me, that I, too, might feel passionate about something.
<The Girls with No Names>(Burdick, Serena) Your Highlight on page 223 | Location 3443-3447 2020-09-17 00:59:43