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“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
“We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
“But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
― Handle with Care
― Handle with Care
“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
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