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“It was as if those school years bred a nostalgia so deep into the cells that the body woke to it each fall as naturally as the squirrels in the park began their frenzied harvest, never mind the weather was still fine, the sun still gracing them all.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“All of the things that make a woman human are a good girls dirty secret”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Later, much later, she said the same, that it was love pre first site, that she'd walked around that whole morning and afternoon somehow knowing that this would be the last first date of her life.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“The road trip would have been romantic, cathartic maybe, to feel each mile drop behind them, to watch the landscape change and change again, to eat hamburgers in sticky diners and make picnics from sad grocery stores and take over motels so beaten they could afford to stay two to a room and everyone could have his own bed.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is