"Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time."

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Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (2013). “What We Saw at Night”, p.106, Soho Press

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Heart Quotes #Boys Quotes #Hormones Quotes

“Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.”
“I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.”
“If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.”
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”
“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
“In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.”
“America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.”
“Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).”

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