"...choosing words is harder than I thought."

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Source : Cynthia Lord (2013). “Rules”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

Cynthia Lord

“The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.”
“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices itâ€”like a secret vice!”
“One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife and I'll get another husband!'”

Source : Leonard J. Arrington, Davis Bitton (1992). “The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints”, p.200, University of Illinois Press
“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”
“Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
“They probably do have an Asian Barbie.”
“I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.”
“I love Saturday morning cartoons. What do you like to do on a Saturday morning?”

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