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I did not make those snickerdoodles. But over my dead body am I telling that to Luka’s grandmother, who makes her pasta from scratch. She once came over, saw a half-used jar of store-bought marinara in my fridge, and looked me dead in the
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“You had to maximize joy when it fluttered into your life. You had to honor it. And savor it. And not stomp it to death by reminding everyone of everything you'd lost.”
― The Rom-Commers
― The Rom-Commers
“happiness is always better with a little bit of sadness.”
― The Rom-Commers
― The Rom-Commers
“love is something you can learn. Love is something you can practice. It's something you can choose to get good at. And here's how you do it." He let go of his walker to signal he meant business: "Appreciate your person.”
― The Rom-Commers
― The Rom-Commers
“There’s no such thing as normal people,” I said, a desperate flailing. “There’s just people, and some of them are miserable, and some of them are happy, and you’ve the same right to be happy as any of them—no more and no less.”
― The Last Graduate
― The Last Graduate
“If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you're at the mercy of darkness.”
― The Rom-Commers
― The Rom-Commers
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