Reinventing Mona Quotes

“I am a thousand scattered pieces that no one has bothered to put together.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“The part you rarely go to because it’s so delicate that if you so much as inhale, you’ll cry from the extraordinary, overwhelming sense of happiness.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“What I mean is that the people you cast in your life have very little to do with how things turn out.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“It never fails to amaze me how many beautiful young women with so much promise and talent wind”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“It’s not her life that’s irrelevant. What’s useless is sitting around wondering what might have been, because what might have been is what is. The grass may look greener on the other side of the fence, but grass is basically grass.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“What they don’t get is that if they hadn’t chosen their current partner, they would have wound up with the same guy wearing different pants,”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“They seem to think if they married their ex-boyfriend or the phantom prince, their entire lives would have turned out like a fairy tale instead of a cookbook,” she said.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“I see women married to good men, shitty men, philandering men, boring men, alcoholic men and they all think there’s someone different out there who would have been better for them.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“They always think if they married someone else, their lives would have turned out differently,”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“and was struck by the next image I saw. Francesca’s arm held the door open for Mike, whose bare arms were strapped around a dusty taped box with my name scribbled on it. My past giving way to my future, which embraced my past. Mike”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway! It was the first time I’d ever contemplated that fear and action could coexist peacefully. I always thought I had to get over my fear before doing anything, but according to this Dr. Jeffers, I should embrace my fear rather than swatting it away like a swarm of flies. It”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should’ve never done.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Without music, our culture is a poor and soulless place where people simply exist but cease to live.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“I love to sing. It is my one true way of forgetting about the outside world and connecting with my core.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Changing yourself into who you think someone else wants is hurting yourself. It’s a rejection of who you are, and that’s toxic. You’re committing emotional suicide.” I”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Good morning, Mona. What can I do for you?” It was Him. He knew it was me on the phone demanding to speak with him, and he still thought it was a good morning. The sound of his voice uttering my name made me regret that I wasn’t taping the call for repeated replay later. His sound was warm and deep with the slightest undercurrent of sleepy crackle, like a thunderstorm. And he wanted to know what he could do for me. Marry me. Love me forever. Enter my Christmas scene proclaiming that, with me, it’s a wonderful life. See the world with me. Father children with me. Grow old with me. Be devastated when I die at 106 and follow me three days later, so our great grandchildren can tell future generations about the greatest love story ever. But first, forgive me for being such a bitch to your receptionist. “Good”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“There was so much I needed to learn about Adam before our wedding. I needed to show him how perfect we could be together. I had to win over his friends and family, possibly convert to Judaism, then get him to propose. I needed a serious action plan. I needed a first date.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should’ve never done.” The”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“epileptically.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Grammy always said that when a developer tells you that he builds elegant homes, it’s because he almost always throws together half-baked cookie cutter models of what twenty-five-year-old trophy brides deem tasteful. “Always consider it a tremendous service when a person tells you how honest he is,” she also said. “It’s a warning round. When they start talking about how honest they are, run. If you’re honest, you don’t need to talk about it. When you build elegant homes, you most certainly do not need to tout their elegance. If someone makes a point of telling you who he is, rather than showing you with his actions, you can bank”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Lack of panache, I silently corrected him. “I don’t know how you’d describe it, but there’s earnestness about you, Mona. There’s nothing frivolous about you.” They call it boring. Insipid. Vacuous. Dry. Dull. Plain. Vanilla minus the vanilla flavor. But thanks for trying to make it sound like an attribute. Now I feel as though I should schedule an appointment with a cosmetic surgeon for both a facelift and a personality implant.”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona

“Spring is here and love is in the air...or maybe it's the smell of fertilizer being sprinkled on my neighbor's lawn.
-The Dog House, March”
― Jennifer Coburn, Reinventing Mona