Jennifer Weiner Short Quotes

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Maybe it was inertia — or worse, fear — that was keeping me in the same place.

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She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name...

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I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

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He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

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There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

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I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

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This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

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The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

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Hell is an Eagles game where the bleachers are always freezing, the team is always losing, and my family is insane.

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People don't like to see things that aren't perfect. It reminds them of what could go wrong in their own lives, I guess.

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The truth, as any woman can tell you, is that there's no place, no profession, nowhere that a woman's looks don't matter.

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Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

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I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

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Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

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Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... is the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

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There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up — the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't.

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Playboy showed me what a pretty girl should look like — thin, white, young. More, it showed me what boys thought a pretty girl should look like.

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You don't get perfect — but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.

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Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

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As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did.

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Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

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Something that's bigger than you, and something that's kind and forgiving, I'd heard one of the meeting leaders say. That's all your Higher Power has to be.

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Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

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People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world.... But you have to do what's right for you.

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If you're looking for a New Year's slogan, here's another one to try — in 2016, let's look beyond the superficial and all resolve to make more of ourselves, not less.

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Thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

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The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard.... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

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Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

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Admitting you had a problem was the first step — everyone knew that — but admitting you had a problem also left you open to the possibility that maybe you couldn't fix it.

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