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21 " Loved #coffee for years. Frankly, I’m shocked at how faithful I am to a drink that’s been with so many other people. Slut! "
― Rachel Thompson , A Walk in the Snark
22 " not telling us and thinking they have, which is a trait I refer to as Manesia). "
― Rachel Thompson , The Mancode: Exposed
23 " There’s just one little annoying thing about going out with him…see, he can be a little, um, indecisive about where to eat when we go out. Man up, dude! "
24 " I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. "
― Rachel Thompson , Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse
25 " Manesia! (Ya know, where they swore they told you something they never told you—which "
26 " poor Andy Dick. "
27 " Well, don’t forget the flowers. "
28 " Listen as much, if not more, than you talk. "
― Rachel Thompson , BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge: How to energize your book sales in a month
29 " It’s also where I keep my secret stash of milk chocolate bars that nobody knows about. "
30 " 1972, comedian Jerry Lewis took a huge departure from his traditional comedic roles when he directed and starred in The Day the Clown Died. "
― Rachel Thompson , Broken Pieces
31 " If you like biking or running, food or movies, bare-naked horseback riding while listening to Phil Collins (questionable, but I knew someone who knew someone), "
32 " The flowers your sweet, thoughtful man bought for you have not only died but are now covered in fruit flies. Fruit flies? They’re not fruit. They’re flowers. What the hell? This whole “flowers are romantic” thing is bullshit. Who came up with this stuff? You buy them, they die. "
33 " Men are fixers. They see women crying so they bring in their toolbox and follow Steps 1, 2, 3, and 4 to make it better. Yet they can’t understand why there are no directions on the Internet for Dealing with a Crying Female and even if there were, why they’re not working, dammit! And, finally, why scratching their balls while staring at us helplessly isn’t helping matters. "
34 " PAIN, NOT UNLIKE CLAY, stretches and molds us into someone we never knew existed. There’s beauty in that. Beauty most people can’t, don’t want to, or are afraid to see. Every scar we carry, physical or emotional, is unique. Nobody’s pain feels exactly the same because I can’t experience what you have. "
35 " But here’s my secret, what I think has gotten my husband and I through over twenty years, my sister through almost thirty, and my folks through almost over fifty: humor. We laugh at ourselves, each other, at pretty much everything. "
36 " Our subconscious remembers what we willingly shove aside. It can take years to undo damage to our self-esteem. And guess what? I don’t blame him. Okay, I do…maybe a little. "
37 " Every chick in a long-term relationship will agree that men have selective hearing. "
38 " I hear the beating of the waves you carry in your chest That simple and that profound This love that binds us Folded in pieces inside love’s soul. "