“She didn’t trust people who didn’t like garlic, especially big fried pieces.”
“I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort.”
“My problems are all problems I’m lucky to have. And I know it, so therein lies the rub.”
“But once Violet saw the inheret sadness in one thing, she couldn't stop.”
“Love wouldn’t make being a mother any less boring or draining or bewildering.”
“In order to make the April mortgage, Kurt had been forced to sell all his CDs, disconnect his Internet, and never set foot in a Jamba Juice.”
“so am I. I have stumbled enough. I am forgiven. I am abundant. I am certainly insouciant. I’m not your tar baby. You’re the star, baby. Love the lucky well. MARIA SEMPLE wrote for television shows including Arrested Development, Mad About You, and Ellen. She has escaped from Los Angeles and lives with her family on an island off Seattle. This is her first”
“I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, You wouldn’t care about what other people thought about you if you realized how seldom they actually did.”
“She didn’t care if other children grew up to the Wiggles or Dan Zanes. Hers would adore Sondheim.”
“She hadn't ascribed to this modern notion of equality between the sexes. Woman were patently superior.”
“Hit me again, and I'll report you to the authorities. Follow me to my bed one more time, and I swear to the gods, I'll search for the most painful way to murder you.”
“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
“Ada:
"Dude, nothing matters. You’re going to go to that Christmas party looking like a million bucks and you’re going to show that stupid whore who’s the boss”
“I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm”
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