Rebecca Wells · 395 pages
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“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Every time I thought that I was "put together," I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a bit fat mess every time.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“That it is kindness that makes you rich.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!”
― Ruth Ozeki, quote from A Tale for the Time Being
“He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me "officer" or "detective." I let it go. If I really had a professional title I'd have demanded it, but getting into an argument because he wouldn't call me "detective" when I wasn't one seemed counterproductive.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Bloody Bones
“wed. Kareem would find it difficult to outwit”
― Jean Sasson, quote from Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
“the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from If You Could See Me Now
“... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructively in large units. They aspired greedily, and then refused to face the responsibilities they had created. They created vast problems, and then buried their heads in the sands of idle faith.”
― John Wyndham, quote from The Chrysalids
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