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1 " I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world. "
― , The Bette Davis Club
2 " I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream. "
3 " But nothing's really free, is it? People always make you pay one way or another. "
4 " Still, they must have got a few things right," Malcolm says. His green eyes sparkle. "You turned out beautifully, if I may say so.""Oh, you can say it," I reply, taking a drag off my cigarette. "Whether or not I'll believe you is something else entirely. "
5 " But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac. "
6 " It might interest you to know," Tully says, "that there's a reason people build miniatures. Doesn't matter if it's guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It's about control. It's about reinventing reality." [...] "Some people get a lot of satisfaction in creating a little world they can escape to. In making things turn out the way they want, at least in their dreams. "
7 " If you think about it, people spend a lot of time trying to hold on to things that are gone. "
8 " Assuming you live through it, the best thing about falling apart is you get to put yourself back together. "
9 " we could relate to Dickens and Twain and Shakespeare and Ephron and Capra and Hitchcock—all those whom she considered so singularly excellent at the craft of storytelling. Mom loved a good zinger, loved a good turn, and she loved a good story. "
10 " Tully starts in again. 'See, the hidden value can go way deeper than sentimental attachment. Sometimes you feel it down to your soul. Like maybe you're the one person who appreciates a work of art that everybody else hates. [...] This thing you treasure, this thing nobody else wants, could also be what you'd call organic. It could be alive. [...] That's what falling in love is, isn't it? Discovering the hidden value in someone. "
11 " else. In that moment, Tully and I share the truth of our existence. We’re twins; we’re soul mates. We are life’s underdogs. We’re the defeated, the conquered, the vanquished. We were made for each other. "
12 " We share the same DNA—and in our family, DNA stands for Denial Now and Always. The truth never came easily to our father, and it doesn’t come easily to his daughters. I "
13 " Life is just a bowl of scaries! "
14 " Here’s the story, Margo,” Charlotte finally says. “I have a proposal for you. Ha-ha. Bad choice of words. Proposition is what I mean. I want you to go after Georgia and bring her back. Right away. Today, in fact.” Clearly, Charlotte is in the early stages of mad cow disease. Any minute, she’ll begin crawling round on the carpet, mooing like a Guernsey. "
15 " Like a sunken ship. Which is how I feel. Shipwrecked.” “You’re not a shipwreck,” Tully says. “You’re a lost treasure. And I found you. "
16 " I’m dying for a drink: gin, brandy, eau de cologne, anything. "
17 " saying, “This is dumb.” Hard to tell. “Boone says get off at the next exit,” Kelsey announces. “Please,” she adds, remembering her manners. "
18 " She could summon security if she wanted to, or a squadron of flying monkeys. "
19 " A Star Is Born was remade two more times, with everybody from Judy Garland to Barbra Streisand playing the part based on Colleen Moore. "
20 " For the unhappy truth is that I am the survivor of a shipwrecked life. "