“Real life doesn't always need to be posted online.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“You make me want to be a better person," he says softly. "To deserve you. I want you to know how right you feel to me.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“In the back of my mind, I’m composing a tweet to make this funny somehow. Hashtag #awkwardparentmoments. It would probably trend on Twitter. I want to laugh at this to make the whole situation less real.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“The girl starts crying even harder, but helpful posts in 140 characters or less don’t appear. Life should be more like Twitter.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“But remember, if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off it.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“Her gratitude warms my shivering insides. I forget the picture I could have posted and realize that it’s a gift. Real life doesn’t always need to be posted online. I can remember this moment without a photo.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“I process that. I realize that the more I talk to people, the more I see everyone has something going on underneath the surface.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“Dads are like noses, her tweet says. They’re always in your face.
Dads aren’t like noses, I tweet back. You’re not allowed to pick them.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“The girl I was before this trip is dead. I’m worried who will take her place. It frightens me. I’m afraid my bitterness is bigger and will never be contained. I’m not sure I want to meet the new me.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
“She embraces her inner weird and flies her freak flag with all she's got. And for once, I'm smart enough to see what a wonderful thing that is.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from #16thingsithoughtweretrue
Janet Gurtler
Born place: Canada
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“I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
“Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark
Floor of the harbour . . I am everywhere,
I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move
With all that move me, under the water”
― John Berryman, quote from The Dream Songs
“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”
― Christopher Morley, quote from The Haunted Bookshop
“The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mystery of the Blue Train
“Lord St. Vincent sees to it that his wife is dressed like a queen. I'll tell thee summat: if she wanted the moon for her looking glass, he'd find a way to pull it down for her.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Mine Till Midnight
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