“Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. “If you lose a flower, you get another flower,” Maya reasons. “If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“And then, despite the fact that A.J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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