“The requests often had a passive-aggressive edge: “Ten thousand dollars is probably small change to you but it would mean a huge amount to us.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“And then I got married and had kids and I got totally swallowed up by this ‘Mum’ persona. We were only meant to have two, but my husband wanted a son, so we kept trying, and I ended up with four girls—and then out of the blue, my husband said he wasn’t attracted to me anymore and he left.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“You’ll meet someone else. You don’t need a man to complete you. Your body does not define you. You need to fall in love with you.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don’t notice it at all until one day you wake up and think: How did I get here? But other times life changes in an instant, with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck, with glorious or tragic consequences.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was.
I guessed my features had just been caught off guard that day. When I peered closer, they rushed to reassemble, as though to say, Oh, shit. But it was as if they couldn’t remember their original placement, and as a result, the final impression was a little off-kilter.”
Source: The Lonesome Bodybuilder
“Life’s not worth living if you’re not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!”
Source: The Lonesome Bodybuilder
“What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you.”
“Wir sollten feiern, was wir feiern können.”
Source: Pure
“La vida podía ser buena en ocasiones, pero a veces eso dependía en parte de nosotros.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“Grooming, in all its forms, is a language of connection, trust, and care.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction