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1 " Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind. "
― Terry McMillan , Getting to Happy (Waiting To Exhale #2)
2 " I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy. "
3 " Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story. "
4 " I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got. "
5 " What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them. "
6 " Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show. "
7 " You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this. "
8 " Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous. "
9 " I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted. "
10 " The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off. "
11 " We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it. "
12 " I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell. "
13 " At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap. "
14 " I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate. "
15 " We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer. "
16 " I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it. "
17 " I had been on a whole lot of folks' prayer lists and God had known for years my address was still 111 Unlucky-in-LOve-Avenue. "
18 " Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail. "
19 " I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer. "
20 " Their young live were over, too, except they had to die everyday while still breathing. "
