Love Quotes by Laurie Frankel

6 Love quotes by Laurie Frankel

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“For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional…

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“Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right…

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“...just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I…

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“Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.”

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“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go…

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“Yeah, but you’re lucky, Janey, he said. You have so many good friends. You have people to do stuff with. You have…

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“You have to make these huge decisions on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in your hands, who trusts you to know what’s good and right and then to be able to make that happen. You never have enough information. You don’t get to see the future. And if you screw up, if…

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“But by the time those acquaintances became close friends, it was too late. Perhaps there was a perfect moment in between, when you were…

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“Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones”

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“...ultimately, eventually, we let go. We do this not because we're ready. We do this not because we've mended. We do this not because we've mourned and come to terms and gotten over it and moved on. We never move on. We don't let go so much as lose our grip and fall because remembering is not enough..memory is imperfect.…

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“How did you teach your small human that it’s what’s inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you…

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“The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.”

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“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you…

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“Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one out in…

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“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not five, and am not only not a doctor but, in fact, am made woozy by paper cuts. Then, to that entirely made-up broth, we add a sprinkling of research, some chunks of childhood memories, a handful of sautéed…

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