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It’s a good idea to get married a bit later in life and after you’ve lived a bit. Say, twenty-seven.
agreed
forcing my friends round for rosemary roast chicken tagliatelle and raspberry pavlovas with a Frank Sinatra soundtrack, when all they wanted to do was eat burgers and go bowling.
feels gurl
I wanted my own friends, my own schedule, my own home, my own money, and my own life.
I found being so tall as a teenager difficult—I never knew how much I was supposed to weigh, because every girl was half my height and talked about their “fat weight” as being a weight I hadn’t been since childhood,
!!!
You’ll feel settled, centered, and calm when you fall in love with the right man.
a friend once said to me when I was on the brink of exhaustion. “You have to choose which you’d rather be: the woman who parties harder than anyone else or the woman who works harder than anyone else.”
He reminds me of a tumultuous time in my life, the stories of which I like to remember but never want to re-create.
Be the person you wish you could be, not the person you feel you are doomed to be.
The talking started connecting with the action. The gap between how I felt inside and how I behaved got smaller.
no matter what we lose, no matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you forever.
The perfect man is kind, funny, and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves.
Let your friends abandon you for a relationship once. The good ones will always come back.
indeed
I want to transpose myself back to the physical state of being twenty-one forever, with all my life ahead of me.”
That’s all I’ve ever wanted. Good humor and good friends. Wisdom and humility. Confidence. Bravery. An unlabored sense of self.
