“I pushed my food around on my plate a little before tossing down my chopsticks. I’d lost my appetite. Which was a shame, because I loved Chinese food. I reached for the fortune cookies in the middle of the table and cracked one open. Tell me what to do, fortune cookie. I unrolled the little slip of paper inside: Ask the right question.
Hmm. Adding “in bed” didn’t make it much funnier, so it was kind of a bummer of a fortune as far as I was concerned, but at the same time it had a point. ”
― Well Met
Hmm. Adding “in bed” didn’t make it much funnier, so it was kind of a bummer of a fortune as far as I was concerned, but at the same time it had a point. ”
― Well Met
“Like the stars, your love should be a constant source of light, and like the earth, a firm foundation from which to grow.”
― Well Met
― Well Met
“It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are.”
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
Frankie wanted to be a force.”
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Frankie wanted to be a force.”
― The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“All this I told Juniper, and she listened in the quiet, dispassionate way she had when you told her something truly terrible. It was as if she was joining things together in her mind, making some act of love and healing where otherwise all was violence and despair.”
― Wise Child
― Wise Child
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