Carolyn Mackler · 256 pages
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“The Fat Girl Code of Conduct:
1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection.
2. Don’t discuss your weight with him.
3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks.
4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing. ”
― Carolyn Mackler, quote from The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
“Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.”
― Carolyn Mackler, quote from The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
― Carolyn Mackler, quote from The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
“Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me”
― Carolyn Mackler, quote from The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Carolyn Mackler
Born place: in New York, The United States
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“An uninspired ruler works to develop those relationships which will be most to his advantage. A great ruler determines the most desirable relationships and assumes them into being.”
― C.S. Friedman, quote from In Conquest Born
“Всеки стоеше откъм собствената си страна в нашия нов свят и в продължение на дълги периоди можехме само да махаме и да си правим знаци през глъчката и олелията. Вечер, когато всички задължения бяха изпълнени, се тръшвахме, капнали, да гледаме новини, телевизионни викторини или стари филми и макар никой от двама ни да не се осмеляваше да го изрече гласно, сигурен съм, че и тя понякога се питаше дали всички подробности и формалности, всички отегчителни и нелепи прозаични ангажименти не бяха засенчили така наречения смисъл на живота. Едва много по-късно ми хрумна, че смисълът вероятно не се заключава в подбрани мигове, заснети от мен и залепени в дебелия семеен албум; смисълът на всичко по-скоро се корени в съвкупността от повтарящи се тривиални дейности, в самото повторение, в закономерностите на това повторение. В течение на еднообразното всекидневие бях усещал смисъла като внезапна и мимолетна лекота, когато, залитащ от изтощение, спирах помежду кухненската маса и миялната с поредната мръсна чиния в ръка и до слуха ми някъде от вътрешността на апартамента долиташе смехът на децата. В случайни, откъслечни мигове ме спохождаше прозрението, че именно рутинно повтарящите се думи и действия са средоточието на онова, което се бе превърнало в мой живот; че не бих могъл да се доближа повече до същината на битието си.”
― Jens Christian Grøndahl, quote from Silence in October
“I felt better when everything was in disorder. It will take me some months to get back to normal: I can't even find a roach to commune with. I have lost my rhythm. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I have been robbed of my filth.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Pleasures of the Damned
“It´s ironic how failures in life are often proceded by warning signs that we dont pick up on, either because they´re not loud enough or we´re not paying attention...When the little warnings fail to do their job, the universe simply bumps up its campaign to get you back n track. Even if it means clocking you over the head with a major disaster to finally shake some sense into you.”
― Kay Cassidy, quote from The Cinderella Society
“When you first heard him talking about it, you'd figure he was batshit crazy, but really, he was just trying to fill up his days so he didn't have to think about what a fucking mess he had made of everything. It's the same for most of us; forgetting our lives might be the best we'll ever do.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from Knockemstiff
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