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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced.” Joan Dideon, Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
― Eve Dangerfield, So Steady

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” Mary Oliver, Wild Geese”
― Eve Dangerfield, So Steady

“When you made someone a meal, you were saying ‘you’re important to me,’ a sentiment that was as valid for friends as it was lovers.”
― Eve Dangerfield, Degrees of Control

“Charlotte Bell was waiting in line at the coffee stand, not fidgeting, not tapping her toes, not looking at her phone, she was just there. Present in some indefinable but obvious way. Probably counting her breaths or reminding herself that the anticipation would make her almond chai latte taste better. She alone looked at peace amidst the disorder, as though she were standing in the eye of the storm.”
― Eve Dangerfield, James and The Giant Dilemma

“And years of seeing the glazed-over boredom on men’s faces when she talked to them had reduced Evie’s self-confidence to a crumb of what it should have been. However, Sebastian listened closely to everything she said, as if he found her endlessly interesting. He encouraged her to say daring things, and he seemed to delight in her attempts to spar with him.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

“Don’t count yourself out this early, Daisy. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Women seek doctors like O’Dwyer and Leafe when they have made their choice, and they want someone to believe them.”
― Sarah MacLean, Knockout

“Everyone needs editing,” she said, her smile broadening with each word. “Well, except me, I guess,” she teased. “Or maybe I did need it,” she added with a shrug. “We’ll never know, because I had no one to edit me.”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“that in an ideal world, we’d live in communities. A mix of people of all ages and backgrounds, all caring for one another and doing the laundry, and gathering mushrooms and what have you.”
― Eve Dangerfield, So Hectic: Silver Daughters Ink, Book #3

“in an ideal world, you’d have more than one mother figure to turn to if one was as abhorrent as the woman you came out of. And that way, old chickens like me could help raise children even if we couldn’t have them ourselves.”
― Eve Dangerfield, So Hectic: Silver Daughters Ink, Book #3