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Jen Robinson
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The deer in Fire Island are so cheeky, insouciant in the way of West Side Story Jets, standing their ground, cigarettes rolled in their shirtsleeves, whistling a tune, singing an expletive-free song of defiance. Someone could so easily
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“How many times I have explain? I pee over there, over there and over there. Technically make it Bigfoot territory.”
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“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
― The Twits
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
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“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too.”
― The Night She Disappeared
― The Night She Disappeared
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