“I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.”
― Twenties Girl
― Twenties Girl
“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”
― The Undomestic Goddess
― The Undomestic Goddess
“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.”
― Confessions of a Shopaholic
― Confessions of a Shopaholic
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“all this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy, dark blanket that had been pulled across all of them. she hadn't know that it would make it difficult to breathe. she hadn't guess that it would seem so enveloping. and so total, and so permanent. ”
― Things I Want My Daughters to Know
― Things I Want My Daughters to Know
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