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What She Really Wants: A Story QUOTES

1 " more space for their clothes. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman’s closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She’ll think you’re brilliant.” “She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn’t thought of herself. "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

2 " matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn’t be caught dead in anything "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

3 " He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

4 " How to describe what she felt as she stood at the head of an all-new cobblestone drive looking at the rebuilt facade of what had once been a weary old Cape? There was relief that the hard work was done, and surprise—always surprise—that everything had come together so well. There was also a sense of ownership. Caroline hadn’t asked to be the mouthpiece of the show, but after nearly ten years as host, it was her baby as much as anyone’s. Gut "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

5 " Inviting viewers along with her chin, she started to walk. Talk came easily. She hadn’t expected that, when she stumbled into this role, but she and the camera had become friends. “It’s been six months since we began work on the small Cape that Rob and Diana LaValle put in our care. They needed more space, but since "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

6 " Inviting viewers along with her chin, she started to walk. Talk came easily. She hadn’t expected that, when she stumbled into this role, but she and the camera had become friends. “It’s been six months since we began work on the small Cape that Rob and Diana LaValle put in our care. They needed more space, but since the house was originally built by Diana’s grandparents and "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

7 " She distracted him by pulling her gift for him out from under the bed. It was two-tiered and beautifully wrapped, with an exquisite card she had made herself—she was an artist, after all. He read the message inside, felt a catch in "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

8 " out. He watched her when they were at Kate’s tennis "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

9 " the kind. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

10 " you’d think that after eighteen years—twenty-one years, if you count the three we were together "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

11 " Putting an elbow on the drafting table and her chin in her palm, she simply looked at him. She wasn’t angry. To the contrary. She had her lips pressed together; she was clearly trying not to smile—and he loved this about her, this good nature. Of course, that didn’t solve his current problem. “You think this is funny?” he asked. “Actually,” the corner of her mouth "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

12 " Tom was not. “Seems to me,” he said, “that she’s at her drawing board evenings more than she’s watching TV, and that you’re the one who uses the sitting room for "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

13 " No, Jack Ramsey didn’t look like a spa person. He lifted weights. Tom couldn’t imagine him in an aerobics class, much less wrapped in seaweed. "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

14 " that,” he added before she could, “because someone needs to be around here to buy the food and see to the house and the kids.” He patted the air. “I know that, Sarah. I’m the first one to say that your role is as important as mine, it’s just that the demands are different.” He put a hand on the back of his neck. "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

15 " She turned the water on again, rinsed a dish, put it in the dishwasher. “I know you didn’t have jewelry.” She listened. “Yes, Mother, other women would love what I have, but that’s not the point. The point is that a gift lacks something if I have to dictate exactly "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

16 " to wear every day, not big things that are only for dress.” Another pause. “Yes, they were very expensive, but expensive doesn’t make them right. I buy costume jewelry that I love, and I wear it all the time, because "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

17 " bright May morning, with the "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

18 " On that bright May morning, with the lilacs budding and the kids off to school, Tom Markham approached his wife with the best of intentions. "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

19 " He shook his head. “For me.” Leaving the bed, he went to the door, picked up the large picnic basket that the girls were holding, then closed the door, leaving them outside. Much as he had needed their help earlier, he didn’t want an audience now. "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story

20 " There were ones with garden supplies and ones with health supplies, but neither offered anything remotely appropriate. There "

― Barbara Delinsky , What She Really Wants: A Story