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Sometimes it just is what it is, Wade. There are things we can change and things we can't. The key is knowing the difference.
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At the age of sixteen, she had slipped out of a house in the middle of the night and run for all she was worth. Now, twenty years later, she was running again.
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Barbara Davis |
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Easier isn't always best.
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Barbara Davis |
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Dreams are like public service announcements from your soul. The only way to get past them is to pay attention to what they're telling us.
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Barbara Davis |
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Her eyes were open and glazed, a piercing shade of violet with fixed, bottomless pupils.
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Barbara Davis |
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don't live a smaller life than you deserve.
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Barbara Davis |
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the instant her foot touched the driveway, like
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Barbara Davis |
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There was certainly plenty in her own past that she was reluctant to look at. Because looking made it real.
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Barbara Davis |
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there's something very healing about the sea. I'm always calmest when I'm near the water,
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Barbara Davis |
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Do you have a room of your own? Do you have one space where you like to create, or can you do it in different places? A. These days, life comes at you full blast twenty-four/seven. There are so many distractions: TV, with its twenty-four-hour news cycle, the infectious lure of social media, cell phones, e-mail, and always, always an endless list of things that need doing. Having a place that's yours alone, a kind of sanctuary where you have..
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Barbara Davis |
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Men like Stephen don't cheat because they're missing something at home, Christy-Lynn. They cheat because they're missing something inside, so they take what they want and make it theirs, because they need to fill up all that empty space.
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Barbara Davis |
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How can you not believe in never? It's just a word." "No," Missy said firmly. "It isn't. It's all the doors we keep shut. It's the places we won't let ourselves go, the things we won't let ourselves have or be, because we don't think we're good enough or strong enough for more. I know because that used to be me. And then I became a single parent, and I realized I didn't have time for nevers." She paused, her smile thin and tremulous. "All I..
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Barbara Davis |
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learned to keep my distance at an early age. A survival mechanism, you might say. I'm working on it, though. Another thirty years and I should about have it mastered.
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Barbara Davis |
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Vulnerable. It wasn't a word she liked the sound of. It was a weak word. A needy word. And she didn't want to need anyone.
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Barbara Davis |
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Men like Stephen don't cheat because they're missing something at home, Christy-Lynn. They cheat because they're missing something inside, so they take what they want and make it theirs, because they need to fill up all that empty space. That's what this woman was. A space filler, something he wanted and took. It wasn't about you.
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Barbara Davis |
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But belonging to someone and giving yourself to them were two very different things. One formed out of need, a tidy arrangement mutually beneficial to both parties, while the other involved laying yourself bare--something she'd never been very good at.
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Barbara Davis |
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the word never represents all the doors we keep closed, that when we say never we close ourselves off from the hope that things can ever be different.
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Barbara Davis |
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Sometimes grown-ups cry when they're happy. That's what I'm doing. I'm crying because I'm happy.
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Barbara Davis |
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don't just get the life we wish for. We get the life we fight for." The life we fight for."
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Barbara Davis |
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I think I was numb," she said at last. "Not happy. Not unhappy. There were signs, I suppose, that it wasn't Shangri-la, but there wasn't any one thing. It was gradual, you know? Insidious. It wasn't until he was gone that I realized I'd been married to someone I barely knew. I was holding on so tightly I never realized how much we'd both changed. Still, it wasn't enough to leave. At least I didn't think it was."
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Barbara Davis |
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There are things we can change and things we can't. The key is knowing the difference.
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Barbara Davis |
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She said the word never represents all the doors we keep closed, that when we say never we close ourselves off from the hope that things can ever be different.
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Barbara Davis |
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At ten, she learned that no address was permanent, at twelve, that no promise was sacred, and at sixteen, that there was no such thing as safe.
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Barbara Davis |
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Doors didn't open on their own. You had to choose to open them, to consciously cross the threshold and glimpse what lay beyond.
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Barbara Davis |
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Don't!" she snapped, cutting him off. "Don't you dare say he loved me. That isn't why I called, to have you reassure me that a half-naked woman in my husband's car doesn't mean anything. She means something to me."
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