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1 " I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect "
― Jane Green , Summer Secrets
2 " He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer----she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers. "
3 " Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. "
4 " For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling of not quite fitting in, not being the same as everyone else. "
5 " Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time. "
6 " Everyone in that garden knew it was only a matter of time before he kissed her. "
7 " I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn’t wake up, and nothing was said. "
8 " It was everything I had dreamed of, his hands snaking through my hair, my own wrapped around his back, unable to believe I had been given license to touch this boy I had loved for so long, license to hold him, to slip my tongue in his mouth, listen to him sigh with pleasure. "
9 " Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good. "
10 " My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed. "
11 " Other people's behavior is none of my business. "
12 " Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. —MELODY BEATTIE "
13 " Her hair was grey and curly, her eyes a soft blue, her body seeming "
14 " I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave. "
15 " trust a man who doesn’t like children or animals, "
16 " Other people's behavior is non of my business. "
17 " The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children. "
18 " Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had. "
19 " fifteen-year-old teenagers, "
20 " I was built for comfort, not for speed "
