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“Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“How long have you worked for my aunt?” I asked her. “Since Moses was in nappies.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“For some reason, I feel the same way about you that I felt about my kids when they were small—that it wasn’t their job to love me, it was my job to love them.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Except theirs was the sort of love that best thrives when a husband and wife are separated by the distance of an entire continent. (“Don’t laugh,” my grandmother said. “A lot of marriages would work better that way.”)”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
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