What She Knew
Gilly Macmillan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In the eyes of others, we’re often not who we imagine ourselves to be.”
“Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know.”
“In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be.”
“None of us deserve anything. That's an illusion we all exist under.”
“simply have been grateful for what I had. I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness, and all, and not forensically examined its faults. Those faults were largely in the eyes of a critical and sharp-edged society anyhow, and I had learned to recognize them by osmosis, by following the herd.”
“Really, I’ve never understood why we haven’t thought of an English word for Schadenfreude.”
“I wish now that I'd valued more the words that tumbled freely out of him before he was taken. I wish I'd collected them and kept them safely in packages that I wrapped up carefully, secured with a ribbon, and stored in a safe place for the future. I wish I hadn't been too distracted to listen to every word he said.”
“I miss her every day. I miss the months we haven’t had together and I miss the future I thought we were going to have, because without her it feels pointless, it feels, just, totally flat. Fuck! This”
“I marveled at how the mundane activities that life demanded still needed to be done, even while the worst was happening.”
“life. I’ve thought about this a lot since my son, Ben, went missing, and every time I think about it, it also begs the question: if we’re not who we imagine we are, then is anybody else? If there’s so much potential for others to judge us wrongly, then how can we be sure that our assessment of them in any way resembles the real person that”
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