Claire Cook Quotes

#1. He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.

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#2. Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

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#3. been tumbled smooth by waves

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#4. Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.

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#5. There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

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#6. The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

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#7. I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical presence, like a Labrador retriever I could teach tricks to. Here, Dread. Sit, Dread. Roll over, Dread. Play dead, Dread.

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#8. I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

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#9. Great, you ruined my life and you don't even remember it.

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#10. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

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#11. There were lots of kinds of men in the world. There were lots of kinds of dogs in the world. There were lots of men who acted like dogs in the world.

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#12. Never underestimate the joy of being married to the one man at the party who knows how to dance.

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#13. Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

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#14. What puts you so in the zone that hours and hours pass and you've barely glanced at the clock? If money were no issue, what is the thing you feel so passionately about that you'd do it for free? What do you care about enough to want to put in the time required to get better and better at it?

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#15. Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars
or say nothing! I simply can't bring myself to do anything else.

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#16. Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

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#17. It takes courage to create,' he said. 'People are afraid of embarrassing themselves by not being good enough.'
Or maybe even by showing who they really are.

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#18. But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you're going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

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#19. If you trust in the process, forget about all the bells and whistles and just put in the work, disparate things can eventually come together and become something far greater than the sum of their parts.

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#20. Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

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#21. Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.

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#22. Love rules without rules.

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#23. Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

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#24. Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

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#25. Poor Jan alone. When she noticed I was seriously date-delayed, Christine started trying

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#26. It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.

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#27. Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

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#28. I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.

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#29. I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

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#30. Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

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#31. I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

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#32. When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

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#33. John Lennon once said that whenever he had an idea, he'd scribble it on a piece of paper and throw it in a drawer. When the drawer was full, he knew it was time for a new album.

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#34. Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.

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#35. I will always have enough. I will always be enough.

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#36. Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

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#37. You just pick someone who has your back and wants the same things as you do, and then you make it work.

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#38. even reflected glory can be intoxicating.

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#39. If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

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#40. You can try to avoid getting hurt six ways from Sunday, but it still might happen.

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#41. Everybody knows that once you past it, you can't go back.

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#42. But what if scrambling to pay the bills takes every minute of your day, every ounce of your creativity? What if you can't afford an au pair? What if you can't even afford an ordinary babysitter?

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#43. What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

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#44. If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

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#45. I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

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#46. I was a lot braver when I was eight.

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#48. Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

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