“Victoria summarized it with this last gem, "Look, all I know is that it’s really hard for a couple to ask for a divorce from each other when their genitals are buried in each other’s faces.”
― Luke Young, quote from Friends With Partial Benefits
“if you work hard enough and really want something, you can achieve just about anything.”
― Luke Young, quote from Friends With Partial Benefits
“The first rule of fight club is don’t tell anyone about fight club... Brad Pitt.”
― Luke Young, quote from Friends With Partial Benefits
“I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your imagination, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart..."She began to really lose it. "...has ever longed... for.”
― Luke Young, quote from Friends With Partial Benefits
“my mom, and she’s totally cool with it… Look she’s still going through a hard time right now—divorce. My dad’s basically a dick who cheated on her. So, if she’s, like, depressed or just staring at the pool like a zombie or something, it’s because of that." As they crossed the state line into Florida, Rob said, "And no thinking about Natalie.”
― Luke Young, quote from Friends With Partial Benefits
“Life is short. You’ve got to seize the opportunities you're given. It’s not like you have a lot of them.”
― Luke Young, quote from Friends With Partial Benefits
“When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth”
― Lorna Seilstad, quote from Making Waves
“And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.”
― Guy de Maupassant, quote from The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“when the liver and muscle glycogen stores are full. In the case of full glycogen stores, the liver then turns the glucose into fat—specifically, a form of saturated fat called palmitic acid (!)—which could be used for energy but is more likely (because you’re a sugar-burner and not fat-adapted) to promote elevated triglycerides, leptin resistance, and insulin resistance and to be added to your fat stores.”
― quote from It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.”
― Rebecca Solnit, quote from A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself.”
― Willa Cather, quote from Lucy Gayheart
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