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Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1) QUOTES

Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1) QUOTES

1 " I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

2 " When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

3 " He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

4 " I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

5 " If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

6 " I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

7 " I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

8 " Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

9 " Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

10 " It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

11 " So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed... "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

12 " As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

13 " Found, I told myself. Try to get found. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

14 " They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

15 " Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken? "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

16 " I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

17 " I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

18 " I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

19 " Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)

20 " This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it. "

― Jennifer Weiner , Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)