“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“Have you ever met a man who looked so damn delicious that you wanted to sop him up with a hot buttermilk biscuit and inhale him in one gulp?”
“Why, yes, I have,” Doris said.
That was a shocker. “Really? What happened?”
“I married him.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“And I want cabana boys named Raoul to rub
warm, fragrant oil all over me, from head to toe, all over my throat and chest and my legs and arms. I
want—”
Theo pushed the chair back on the deck and it made a loud scraping sound. He grabbed Lucy’s face
and kissed her hard, then rose up and placed her on her feet, taking her hand.
“Where are we going, Theo?”
“Shh.” He stroked her hair as he led her inside. “The name’s Raoul.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“Light mayonnaise is like masturbation—it approximates the real thing but leaves you unfulfilled,
ultimately leading to fantasies about diving face-first into a big-ass jar of the real stuff.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“That’s
the kind of dress that belongs on the floor, all wrinkled up, with the zipper broken and the sleeves torn.
That dress isn’t right for you at all. In fact, I think you should take it off right now.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“Ah, Milk Duds. The official candy of pissed-off fat women everywhere”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“Affirmation for Today: I am strong enough to refrain from killing any or all members of my family.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“As her lungs pumped and her head cleared, she wondered if all the effort she’d put into blotting out the pain had deadened her ability to feel pleasure, too. What a shame. What a loss.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“Ah, Milk Duds. The official candy of pissed-off fat women everywhere.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“He realized that the woman at his side - the one with the sweaty red face and the sweet smile - had pried open his heart, one day at a time.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
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“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in our father's place. That's not him, we said to our mother, That's not him, but our mother no longer seemed to hear us..."Did you...she said. "Every day," he replied. Then he got down on his knees and he took us into his arms...”
― Julie Otsuka, quote from When the Emperor Was Divine
“I've lost my mind," Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. "I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer".”
― Lynsay Sands, quote from Hungry for You
“That was also why I loved being a summoner—there were rules when dealing with demons. Dealing with humans was never simple or straightforward.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Mark of the Demon
“I supposed that if I had a third eye in the middle of my forehead she would want one of those too. “You don’t want a fake orange tan, Munchkin.”
“Yes, I do,” she insisted. “It’s pretty.”
Alex was amused. “Oh, I think so too. Very pretty and informative. I have always wondered what the female Oompa-Loompas looked like.”
― Tammy Blackwell, quote from Destiny Binds
“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?"
My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips.
Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Breath, Eyes, Memory
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