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1 " Pheromones didn't care about tomorrow. They didn't care about education or employment or age. "
― Tracy Brogan , The Best Medicine (Bell Harbor, #2)
2 " You’re my knight in shining armor.” “Oh, if only slaying dragons were as easy as buying tampons. "
3 " There is no such thing as a perfect husband. Or a perfect wife. Or a perfect marriage. Sometimes love supersedes logic, and the best thing to do is just follow your heart. "
4 " clandestine "
5 " reality. Birthday wishes did not come true, any more than wishes made on puffy dandelions blown into the breeze or pennies tossed into a fountain. Wishes were nothing more than unrealized goals. "
6 " She’s buying sex toys now, you know. Sex toys for herself. Where the hell does that leave me? Have you ever seen a Vagazzler? That thing can give her an orgasm and then make her a Frappuccino. I can’t compete with that. I don’t know how to make a Frappuccino. "
7 " As promised, I’d driven to Ann Arbor so we could spend the weekend together and go wedding dress shopping. This was the fifteenth or sixteenth gown she’d tried on. We’d been in this bridal salon for so long I think the shop had changed owners since we’d arrived. "
8 " Can you think of anything that you might need?” I looked back over my shoulder at him. I was about to cross a boundary no woman ever wanted to cross. “There is, but I just can’t ask you.” His smile was patient. “Try me.” “Tampons.” He burst out laughing. "
9 " What’s in the bags?” He flipped them over and emptied the contents onto the foot of the bed. Boxes upon boxes tumbled out. Boxes of every brand, style, and absorbency variation of tampon. "
10 " Do you have any idea how many choices there were? Pearl, and super pearl, and gentle glide, and infinity. Seriously? Infinity? And let me tell you, when a dude at the grocery store asks a woman what kind she likes, he is escorted out by security. "
11 " Your father needed to take care of someone, and I never let him do that for me. I should have given him a dragon to slay once in a while. "
12 " I’m not a complete birthday Scrooge . . . except when it comes to my own birthday. I’m just not a big-celebration, look-at-me kind of woman. Having all that attention directed my way for something no more notable than aging seems silly. It’s like getting the green participation ribbon for field day. I hadn’t worked to earn this. I was being rewarded simply for showing up. "
13 " So many to choose from,” he answered. “But let’s see. I guess the most recent is this one old guy who keeps calling us for the same issue. We keep telling him he’s fine, but every time we have to take him into the ED anyway.” He set his soup bowl down on the table and ran a hand through his hair. “What’s his issue?” “Beets.” “Beets?” “Yeah, apparently he keeps stealing beets from his neighbor’s garden and they turn his pee bright pink. He thinks he’s dying. But no, it’s just the beets. Last time we were there, the neighbor came running after him with a rake. Funniest thing ever, watching two eighty-year-old dudes trying to wrestle each other to the ground. "
14 " I should have given him a dragon to slay once in a while, instead of always being the dragon. "
15 " Relationships are all a crapshoot anyway. At least if the sex is good, then, well, then at least the sex is good. "
16 " I’d always found it the height of hypocrisy that a man who fixed broken hearts for a living could be so incredibly careless with mine. "
17 " Did you know it’s bad luck to take bananas on a fishing boat?” he said as we got to the end of one dock and turned around to go back. "
18 " Birthday wishes did not come true, any more than wishes made on puffy dandelions blown into the breeze or pennies tossed into a fountain. Wishes were nothing more than unrealized goals. "
19 " If I didn’t couple up soon and hop on the Ark, it’d be just me and the unicorns swimming for dear life. We walked down a spacious "
20 " it seems to me that if they kept pulling these pranks on each other, they never really did let go. Love ends when you stop thinking about each other, not when you’re still trying to get a rise from one another. "
