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Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1) QUOTES

1 " I’m fine,” I assured her. “Are you scared?” Sandra asked. I shrugged. “Not really.” “Bull pucky,” Sandra retorted. “Sandra!” Elizabeth nudged her friend with her elbow. “No, I mean it.” Sandra crossed her arms and arched an eyebrow at me. “That's a load of steaming bovine dooky. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

2 " it from you for so long.” “You don’t need to be embarrassed.” I shook my head because it didn’t work that way. Shame couldn’t be erased so easily. It was sticky like chewing gum and embedded itself in everything it touched. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

3 " Do you like cooking shows?” she asked, her eyes skittering away bashfully. “There’s this one I’ve been watching on YouTube—Angie got me hooked on it.” “I love cooking shows.” I leaned forward to snag the remote off the table and handed it to her. “Show me.” We settled back to watch a charming young woman attempt to replicate Girl Scout cookies. It was both amusing and stressful, and as the show’s host veered off task to clean the microwave and tried to reject the assistance of the other kitchen staffers, insisting that she worked better alone when she so clearly needed help, I began to understand why Dawn liked it so much. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

4 " Slow walkers were a scourge upon the city streets. It was all very well to live a leisurely, low-stress life, taking plenty of time to stop and smell the roses—so long as you did it off to one side so those of us with somewhere to be could get past you. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

5 " Wow, you have a lot of characters.” “Yeah, I like to try all the powers out. I’m kind of a perma-lowbie by nature.” “What does that mean?” “It means I like the early part of the game better than the endgame. I’d rather keep rolling up new characters than max out my existing ones.” “You seem to have a preference for melee classes over ranged classes. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

6 " Men,” Linda harrumphed from her chair by the window. “Can’t live with them, can’t tip the lot of them into a volcano and start society over without ’em. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

7 " I reached for my wine and took a drink, even though I didn’t really like wine. Jessica was right, it was too oaky. Drinking it was like licking the underside of a coffee table. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

8 " I almost couldn’t blame Jerry for seeking out greener pastures, an at least I no longer had to feel guilty about my failing marriage. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

9 " Hendrick’s martini, extra dirty with three olives, "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

10 " The way he was looking at me unraveled me like a ball of yarn dropped down a flight of stairs. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

11 " I’m at the doctor’s office, and you know how funny they are about cell phones.” “They’re not funny about it,” Jerry said. “There are very good reasons for the rules against cell phones. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

12 " But the biggest reason I hadn’t made more of an effort on the dating front? Fear. I was a tremendous chicken. I hadn’t slept with anyone but Jerry in twenty-eight years. And it wasn’t like our sex life had been particularly adventurous. Dull, rote, and no great shakes were the phrases that leapt to mind—not to mention all but nonexistent the last few years we were together. The truth was, I was afraid to sleep with anyone else, because I was fairly certain I would be bad at it. Even if I wasn’t, the idea of getting naked in front of a man I’d just met terrified me. At my age? In my current body? Madness. And then there was the intimacy of the act itself. The vulnerability. How did people expose themselves like that in front of someone they barely knew? It seemed inconceivable to me. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

13 " As soon as his back was turned, I mouthed the word dick. I’d only been in this job three months and I’d already lost most of the fucks I’d had to give. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

14 " Boston fern "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

15 " According the biopsy, it’s only Stage I, thank goodness "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

16 " It would also be up to the oncologist to determine during the surgery whether I got to keep my ovaries. Unlike a simple hysterectomy, an oophorectomy would deprive my body of estrogen and progesterone, plunging me into sudden, premature menopause with all its attendant horrors. If that happened, I could look forward to an increased risk of depression, anxiety, heart disease, arthritis, and bone loss. This was in addition to the usual side effects of menopause like hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, and vaginal dryness, which were typically more intense for women who hadn’t started menopause naturally "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

17 " If I’d learned anything from my failed marriages, it was that you couldn’t expect to find personal fulfillment in another person. If you weren’t happy with yourself, you weren’t going be any happier with someone else. You were only dragging them into your unhappiness with you. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

18 " Not to mention, although I loved my mom, she had a tendency to criticize and see the negative in every situation, which was a trait I’d detected in myself and tried to overcome. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

19 " Nico was heart-stoppingly gorgeous in that superhumanly symmetrical way actors and models tended to be. "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)

20 " sweater "

― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)