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The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)

by Abby Jimenez (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 14, 2026 08:52PM

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Book cover for Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist

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This is what I call fake-resting. I’m wearing pajamas. The kids are watching cartoons, snuggling under blankets, eating waffles. Aaron’s reading or sleeping. It looks like I’m resting, too. But I’m not. I’m ticking down an endless list, ...more

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“had a humming under my skin that I was so unused to”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

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“I wasn’t a stranger to makeup or hair products. It wasn’t that long ago that I’d dressed in nice pants and pretty shirts and worn mascara every single day. But it had all seemed pointless given my current circumstances.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

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“I tried breathing like a yogi, but who was I kidding. I tried to examine my anxiety as if it were an item at the grocery cart. To read its label: a negative feeling that you don’t need. Put that package back on the shelf and breathe.”
― Ann Garvin, There's No Coming Back from This

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“I try to think sometimes about how they got to where they are. Nobody is born like this. I get these animals in my clinic that bite because they’re scared or in pain or they’ve been abused.” I went quiet. “Maybe my parents were some of those things. Maybe it changed them. I would be open to hearing about it if they had the ability to acknowledge it themselves and take some accountability.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

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“My dad shouldn’t have let it beat him; he should have fought harder. Not because he’s better than anyone else fighting invisible demons, but because he’s my dad. He’s mine and I needed him and he didn’t try and he didn’t even care. He served himself, his desires, and his impulses and he kept serving himself until the anger and the regret and the resentment came like a tsunami—and when he let the waves engulf him, he dragged us all down with him.”
― Hannah Grace, Wildfire

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