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“It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“Old age can make us feel like we need to live a smaller life, but Jenny has shown that our dreams have a place at every stage of our journey . . . that they can be achieved because of our age, and not in spite of it.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner’s changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It’s a bit like growing roses—you don’t get to choose exactly which way the stems unfurl, but if you help them climb you get the pleasure of watching them flourish.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“It’s strange, she thought, how recipes outlive the people that wrote them and yet they almost bring a part of that person back to life, as if a tiny piece of their soul lives in those instructions.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which way the stems unfurl, but if you help them climb you get the pleasure of watching them flourish.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
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