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🙋🏻♀️For my friends who love the combination of grief, banter, and holiday movies. (ME!)GRACE & HENRY’S HOLIDAY MOVIE MARATHON by Matthew Norman
🎧Thanks, @prhaudio, for the #gifted audiobook. #PRHAudioPartner #sponsored
Grace and Henry both lost their ...more "
I’d only minimally sniped at her. I’d let her make every decision and I’d picked up every check.
“[Greens] don't come through the back door the same as other groceries. They don't cower at the bottom of paper bags marked 'Liberty.' They wave over the top. They don't stop to be checked off the receipt. They spill out onto the counter. No going onto shelves with cans in orderly lines like school children waiting for recess. No waiting, sometimes for years beyond the blue sell by date, to be picked up and taken from the shelf. Greens don't stack or stand at attention. They aren't peas to be pushed around. Cans can't contain them. Boxed in they would burst free. Greens are wild. Plunging them into a pot took some doing. Only lobsters fight more. Either way, you have to use your hands. Then, retrieving them requires the longest of my mother's wooden spoons, the one with the burnt end. Swept onto a plate like the seaweed after a storm, greens sit tall, dark, and proud.”
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it”, travelling the world or out every night, there’s a kind of tyranny in that too, that life has to be full, like your life’s a hole that you have to keep filling, a leaky bucket, and not just fulfilled but seen to be fulfilled. “You don’t have kids, why can’t you speak Portuguese?” Do I have to have hobbies and projects and lovers? Do I have to excel? Can’t I just be happy, or unhappy, just mess about and read and waste time and be unfulfilled by myself?”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“There is who we want to be, she thought, and there is who we are. As we get older the former gives way to the latter, and maybe this is who I am now, someone better off by themselves. Not happier, but better off. Not an introvert, just an extrovert who had lost the knack.”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
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― Love You a Latke
― Love You a Latke
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― You Are Here
― You Are Here
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