"The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.69, Penguin

Melissa Bank

#Girl Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Couple Quotes

“Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.”
“I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say...”
“For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.”
“I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.”

Source : "Architect Philip Johnson Dies at 98". www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2005.
“A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty...”
“I like being in new places and seeing new sights.”
“I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.”

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