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The No-Show
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She’s probably forgiven him already, really, in anticipation of his excellent excuse. But for a moment, it’s quite nice to imagine she’s the sort of woman who wouldn’t. The sort of woman who’d say, I don’t take this shit. If you stand me
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Should i be this kind of woman ?
“Food needs to be made with love. Everything tastes better when it’s made with love.”
― The Little Café in Copenhagen
― The Little Café in Copenhagen
“I sit there for a moment in the silence. How is it that some lucky people avoid all the pitfalls of love—the cheating husband who blindsides you, then the indignities of “putting yourself out there again,” waiting for someone to click on your profile, the retelling again and again of your life story to a random, bored stranger, and then the slow realization that time may be running out and that you need to figure out how to settle for a life that is so far from what you imagined? How, indeed, do they get that lucky?”
― The Magic of Found Objects
― The Magic of Found Objects
“You need to forget what society has told you about life and expectations, and don’t let anybody make you pretend. You are enough, just the way you are—do you hear me? You have many gifts. Many, many gifts.”
― Matchmaking for Beginners
― Matchmaking for Beginners
“When a couple of adopting parents are choosing a daughter, I stand by with my heart in my mouth, feeling as though I were assisting in the inscrutable designs of Fate. Such a little thing turns the balance! The child smiles, and a loving home is hers for life; she sneezes, and it passes her by forever.”
― Dear Enemy
― Dear Enemy
“You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door—"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all very well to teach so easy a belief to normal children, who have a proper family and roof behind them; but a person whose only refuge in distress will be a park bench must learn a more militant creed than that. "The Lord has given you two hands and a brain and a big world to use them in. Use them well, and you will be provided for; use them ill, and you will want," is our motto, and that with reservations.”
― Dear Enemy
― Dear Enemy
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