Fake it, until you make it ..
Evlilik fedakarlık ve çaba gerektirir, sonrasında daha çok çaba ve fedakarlık gerektirir. Sonra daha çok çaba. Buyurun, buyurun yalnız içeri girerken bütün umutlarınızı kapıda bırakın.
Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails. Mine was the day Marian died. The day I picked up that knife is a tight second.
El sol seguía siendo ojo furibundo en el cielo. <>.
De la misma manera que algunas mujeres cambian de aspecto regularmente, yo cambio de personalidad. ¿Qué personaje me sienta bien, cuál es el más deseado, cuál se pone de moda? Creo que la mayor parte...
Dacă vrei să faci ceva și vrei să știi dacă-i o idee proastă, imaginează-ți că o vezi tipărită în ziar, ca să afle toată lumea.
DNA to me was some sort of magical element, some glowing goo that was always getting people out of prison
But it’s tempting to be Cool Girl. For someone like me, who likes to win, it’s tempting to want to be the girl every guy wants. When I met Nick, I knew immediately that was what he wanted, and for him...
But I'm a romantic. In real life, if Nick had killed me, I think he would have just rolled my body into a trash bag and driven me to one of the landfills in the sixty-mile radius. Just dispose of me....
But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue...
But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent.
But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can’t do it, but I can applaud it in others.
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase? So you suffer through the night with the...
Bear gifts if you can’t bear anything else.
As a child, I was constantly being sent on playdates with other kids—the shrinks insisted I interact with cohorts. That’s what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, w...
Angie’s house looked like a child’s drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional.
And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him.
Amy. Please. He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.
Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness...
Amy could spend an entire evening out fretting that she lef tthe stove on, even though we didn't cook that day. Or was the door locked? Was I sure? She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Bec...