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telling a Health Service doctor that she felt awfully blue much of the time only to have him respond by telling her that she had an unreasonable expectation of happiness. Lizzie wonders whether her desire for happiness, as opposed to an
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“Morally dubious people make great art all the time. Justin Timberlake’s Justified is a great album, for instance.”
― Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
― Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
“A lot was written about romantic love, Avery thought, about the profundity of that embrace. Bu this, too, was deserving of rapture, of song. Before she ever knew a lover's body, she knew her sisters', could see herself in their long feet and light eyes, their sleek limbs and curled ears. And, before life became big and difficult, there were moments with them when it was simply good: an early morning, still dark out, their parents asleep. Her younger sisters arriving one by one at her bedside, hair tangled, exuding their sour and sweet morning musk. She'd lifted the covers for each of them, letting them crowd into her bottom bunk, bodies pressed tight against one another, and they'd fallen asleep again like that, dropping off like puppies curled around a mother's warm belly.”
― Blue Sisters
― Blue Sisters
“It rolls off the tongue and made you feel the same kind of sexy as the Olsen twins when they're whispering "prune" while posing for a photograph.”
― Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
― Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
“Your 20s are the time when you master what you think you're supposed to do. But in your 30s, when you've figured out what you like and don't like, and you're more confident, you can move on to what you really want to do, which might be totally different.”
― Be Ready When the Luck Happens
― Be Ready When the Luck Happens
“And now you come here to tell me all the ways we let you down? No, I’m sorry, darling. You’re too old to be blaming your parents for your problems. That get-out-of-jail-free card has expired.”
― Blue Sisters
― Blue Sisters
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Q&A with Lucie Smoker about Distortion
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From January 7, 2013 to January 11, 2013, join award-winning author, Lucie Smoker, as she discusses her new mystery, DISTORTION
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