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“Too right. A woman can’t bloody well pick her signature drink without sampling the whole bar.”
it’s hard to be free and clear for whatever comes along when you’re not making any room for anything to come along.”
I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it.
Keats poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” about how the breath right before you kiss your beloved is the sweetest one of all, because you realize you’re about to get exactly what you want.
I hung up the phone and tapped it lightly against my chin, then wrapped myself tighter in my giant woolen cardigan and poured another glass of boxed wine—the official drink of emotionally confused women on a budget.
“You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.” —Wallis Simpson