Life in a novel

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If I could sit down and talk to my teenage self, I would tell her this: Keep your figure, don’t eat junk. Don’t go back with a man because he cries for you. Don’t be so serious, enjoy life, and fate will take care of the rest. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of time to get married in your thirties, you’ve not even lived half your life at that stage. Save some for a rainy fay. Love yourself and life will love you back.
“What Women Know. A Book of Wisdom and Knowledge” by Michelle Jackson and Dr Juliet Bressan

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During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but now they seemed inconsequential. Puny. Move far enough away from an event and it sort of levels out, so to speak - settles into the general landscape.
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler

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I love that feeling you get when you don’t remember that you’re reading. When you’re so captured by a book that you forget you’re reading the words. All you see is the descriptions and conversations that being to play out like a movie in your head. You don’t even think about it. Then before you know it, you’ve read 100 pages without realizing it. That’s probably the best feeling in the world. 

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