“That's the word he'd used - stunning. It's a difficult word to dismiss. She longed to be that word to someone.”
― Austenland
― Austenland
“I want to be happy. I used to want Mr. Darcy, laugh at me if you want, or the idea of him. Someone who made me feel all the time like I felt when I watched those movies.”
― Austenland
― Austenland
“Real women are happy, fat, skinny, healthy, unhealthy, dumb, and smart.”
― Curvy and Loving it
― Curvy and Loving it
“Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and it gets tiresome to read books about skinny women all the time. There's nothing wrong with skinny women, I just don't relate to their lives, and it would be really hard for me, as a writer, to fully inhabit that character otherwise.”
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