Past book: Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

"They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then--how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal." (pg. 34)

Let this be a motto to these lovely ladies. Yes, we're not 21 anymore, but thank goodness! Look at how much more secure we are with ourselves!

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