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“But that was the thing: sometimes being a sister meant knowing the right thing to do and still not doing it because winning was more important.”

Winning Family Sisters

Book:The Most Fun We Ever Had

Source: The Most Fun We Ever Had

“Julia recognizes it, that edge-of-adulthood progression: tightly wound and hyperconscious teenage preferences - dictated for centuries, inevitably, by a tasteless few - giving way to the awareness that you’re allowed to like some of the things that you’re not supposed to like, that doing so may distinguish you, and that someone else might also like the forbidden thing, or simply witness you liking it and love you for it. Her daughter is piecing together her own interior rule book; this seems as marvelous a development as her learning to crawl.”

Growing Up Teenagers

Author:Claire Lombardo

“The best thing about the cold was the comfort that came from escaping it.”

Cold Winter Chilly

Book:The Most Fun We Ever Had

Source: The Most Fun We Ever Had

“Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him.”

Light Darkness Juxtaposition

Book:The Most Fun We Ever Had

Source: The Most Fun We Ever Had

“If someone asked her to poetically describe her marriage, she would articulate that particular feeling, one of simultaneously wanting him pressed against her and also on another continent.”

Relationships Marriage

Book:The Most Fun We Ever Had

Source: The Most Fun We Ever Had

“The nest would never be empty so long as she was in it with him.”

Relationships Marriage

Book:The Most Fun We Ever Had

Source: The Most Fun We Ever Had