"the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ..."

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Anais Nin

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“Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.”
“In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.”
“I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.”
“There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.”
“She sees ghosts,â€ said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,â€ I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadnâ€™t thought heâ€™d be a moviegoer.”
“There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.”
“The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things.”
“Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of ***** who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.”

Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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