Category: Food
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Such a Fun Age
“… She would say good-bye in yearbook signatures and through heart-broken tears and through emails and over the phone. But, she’d never say good-bye to Emira, which made it seem that Emira would never be completely free of her.”
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Dreamland
“For the rest of my long life, I would become known not only for what I would achieve, the lives altered, the buildings raised with my name on them, but for my passionate heart.”
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife
“..the hardest question we have to ask ourself in this life is, “who am I?”. Ideally, we answer it for ourselves, but be warned that others will strive to do it for you, so don’t let them”
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The Wives
“A woman’s greatest foe is sometimes her hope that’s imagined it all. That she herself is crazy rather than the circumstances of her life. Funny the emotional responsibility a woman is willing to take on just to maintain an illusion..”
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Dear Edward
“What happened to you is baked into your bones. It lives under your skin. It’s not going away. It’s part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you’ve been working on, is learning to live with that.”
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You Were There Too
“It occurs to me that marriage is a lot like (a) TV. The connection gets loose sometimes – even to the point where you think it might not work anymore – but then something jars it and the wires slip back in place, exactly where they belong, lighting up the screen and bringing back the…
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Big Lies in a Small Town
“You have to make peace with the past or you can never move into the future.”
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The Network
“What a terrible thing pride is. If it were only my life to be lost, I could almost be grateful, for in posting it I have found it.”
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Regretting You
“Attraction isn’t something that only happens once, with one person. It’s part of what drives humans. Our attraction to each other, to art, to food, to entertainment. Attraction is fun. Relationships are hard for that very reason. Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people simply because…
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Stay
“Well… now, I’m starting to think.. you don’t know what might be coming next. And it might be something nice. Something good, even though everything before it wasn’t good at all.”
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The Wicked Redhead
“Just the two of us. Lying under the hot sky. And I expect there must be some kind of tonic in the air, some kind of vaporous love potion, because I cannot look at this man without desiring to touch him… I am punch drunk, I am dead gone.”
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This is Not How it Ends
“Maybe there are people in the world who are meant to be alone. Maybe they touch lives for brief moments, intermittent connections with long-lasting effects. Maybe we’re meant to learn from our goodbyes. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s all a bunch of nonsense that sounds good in theory but rips you apart, leaving everything broken.”
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A Good Neighborhood
So, yes, I didn’t like this book. But, I didn’t like it because it felt real. Therese Anne Fowler did an incredible job writing a book that makes the reader feel uncomfortable, tense, angry, disappointed and just down-right sad.
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The Vine Witch
After breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.
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Olive, Again
The iconic Olive returns and struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.
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The Family Upstairs
Thank you Atria Books for gifting me a copy of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell. “Be careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally…
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“There’s a big difference between being a coward and putting your emotional safety first.”
The Bookend Diner 