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Second Time Around
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Beth Kendrick3,595 ratings, 3.67 average rating, 313 reviews
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“Blind date' is code for 'We met online and don't want to talk about it.”
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“...so we could all burn in our beds with no warning?' 'Oh, you’d have plenty of warning, ma’am. The smoke detectors all work.”
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“But Brook was on a roll. She started gesturing and pacing the carpet.
"All I ask for is a cute little hideaway that hasn't sustained decades of internal structural damage. I don't want a fixer-upper; I don't want to spend all my free time fixing the previous owners' mistakes; I just want to move in and unpack. Is that really so much to ask?"
"Yes," Anna said. "Both with houses and with men." (p 187)”
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"All I ask for is a cute little hideaway that hasn't sustained decades of internal structural damage. I don't want a fixer-upper; I don't want to spend all my free time fixing the previous owners' mistakes; I just want to move in and unpack. Is that really so much to ask?"
"Yes," Anna said. "Both with houses and with men." (p 187)”
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“Anna shrugged one shoulder. "If Jonas had an MLS listing, that's exactly what it would say: such a nice guy, move-in condition. It's not that simple, though. It's never that simple." (p 187)”
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“And with that, she put her emotions on autopilot and focused on getting to the end of this conversation without any more dashed hopes or hurt feelings.”
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“Epigraph, Chapter 22
"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
~George Eliot, 'The Mill on the Floss”
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"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
~George Eliot, 'The Mill on the Floss”
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“Epigraph Chapter 21
"Truth is tough."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 'The Professor at the Breakfast Table”
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"Truth is tough."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 'The Professor at the Breakfast Table”
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“Epigraph, Chapter 20
"If this were played upon the stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
~William Shakespeare 'Twelfth Night”
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"If this were played upon the stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
~William Shakespeare 'Twelfth Night”
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“Epigraph, Chapter 10
"If things were simple, word would have gotten around." ~Jacques Derrida, 'Limited Inc.”
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"If things were simple, word would have gotten around." ~Jacques Derrida, 'Limited Inc.”
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“To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential.”
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“I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.”
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