"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"

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Paula Poundstone

#Funny Quotes #Mom Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.”

Source : "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.
“Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.”
“I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen, and let me tell you, nothing can give you an emotional reset like a good ballet barre.”
“But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead â€” in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death â€” the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human â€” feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.”
“I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving”
“The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.”
“Try to capture what you can't bear to be without”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.29, The Overlook Press
“Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.”

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