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Also, whenever I read this paragraph to people who don’t live in the South, they get hung up on the fact that we had furniture devoted to just guns, but in rural Texas pretty much everyone has a gun cabinet. Unless they’re gay. Then they
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“It was never a love story. The story was always about my not-enoughness and my black-sheepness and my total inability to not feel like an empty piece of inconsequential shit who couldn’t do life.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
“There is the life that most of us live, and then there is the life we have buried deep inside us, the life we know we’re supposed to be living.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
“They rested and had a light meal, talking quietly and listening from time to time. Twilight was about them as they crept back to the lane. The West wind was sighing in the branches. Leaves were whispering. Soon the road began to fall gently but steadily into the dusk. A star came out above the trees in the darkening East before them.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“We take off our shoes. Mine don't fit right anyway, since in the spirit of waste-not-want-not that rules 13, I was issued a pair someone had outgrown. Apparently, one of us walks funny, because they're broken in all wrong.”
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“It was never a love story. The story was always about my not-enoughness and my black-sheepness and my total inability to not feel like an empty piece of inconsequential shit who couldn’t do life. Alcohol was just part of the story of me, and it shape-shifted as I shape-shifted. There’s enough of a story to convince you how entirely normal my drinking was, and there’s enough of a story to foreshadow a problem.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
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