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81 " Reading for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain. Getting off on the fantasy within the pages of a good novel felt necessary to my survival. "
― Penny Reid , Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0)
82 " What did God say at Nietzsche's funeral?''What?''Nietzsche is dead. "
83 " Reading, for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain. Getting off on the fantasy within the pages of a good novel felt necessary to my survival. If I wasn’t asleep, knitting, or working, I was reading. This was for several reasons, all of them focused around the infinitely superior and enviable lives of fictional heroines to real-life people. Take "
84 " Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” “That is the only time a man can be brave, "
85 " I knew better than to be attracted to the top one percent of good looking single men. The top one percent didn’t believe in monogamy, or human decency, or manners, or—honestly—good sex. "
86 " I had a gift for attracting assholes and users, probably because every boy I knew growing up—and then every man I knew—eventually treated me like garbage. "
87 " There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey "
88 " What I can’t abide is your apathy. Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water. "
89 " Butter my biscuits, now that’s a woman.” I "
90 " Why’d he pull you over, Duane?” This question came from Billy.“He’s an idiot. He said my tail light was out.”“Is your tail light out?”“Yes. But he’s still an idiot. "
91 " Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss "
92 " Prolonged irrationality wasn’t in my wheelhouse. Recrimination was not my homeboy. "
93 " You know I like my sushi like I like my men….” She paused for dramatic effect then added, “…With two slices of ginger.” “You "
94 " It was nice to share my friends with Momma and vice versa, like two parts of my heart coming together "
95 " Fiona: “I agree with Janie. If we have to put up with a grumpy Quinn all year, then we should be able to use his plane for emergencies. "
96 " I know I just provide the mode of travel for these trips, and this is none of my business, "
97 " I’m not going to let you down, and I’m not ever going to let you go. "
98 " To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson "
99 " Quinn didn’t like it, but then he doesn’t like anything except his wife. "
100 " But I was really just going through the motions. Nothing about it felt cleansing or necessary. My heart was still downstairs, twisted up and bruised and refusing pain medication. "