Courtney Maum Quotes

#1. And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.

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#2. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.

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#3. MOMENTS OF great import are often tinged with darkness because perversely we yearn to be let down.

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#4. When a woman you have cried against postcoitus tells you she's leaving you for a man whose claim to fame is the conjoining of a soup spoon and a fork, you wait for the ringer, you wait for the joke.

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#5. You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don't. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, "I love you. I've always loved you back.

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#6. Forward is forward.

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#7. the color-matching company had to make up for their dismal mistake with 2015, which they'd dubbed the year of "marsala," which only ended up being true for mothers of the bride. All

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#8. He has an affair, so we have another baby?" said Anne. "This is great fucking advice."
"What elegant language," said her father, glaring at Anne.

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#9. She had endless legs and high-waisted pants, which even on a girl of her attractiveness drew an unnecessary amount of attention to her pelvic floor.

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#10. Startled from a bad dream, or perhaps still in one...

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#11. They were too near to me. I loved them to much. And the love overtaking me and combined with the fact that I was going to spend another evening alone, doing nothing with it, being waited down to motionlessness by my own actions made me want to get it over with and fucking be alone.

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#12. Some people self-soothe in retail outlets; I bask in pink wine.

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#13. The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

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#14. Expandable is exactly what a marriage is. If you refuse the possibility that bad things might happen, a marriage cannot survive.

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#15. I fell asleep smiling, fully at ease with the ludicrous prospect of spending the rest of my life with this one, single person. It's not quite right what they say: love doesn't make you blind, it makes you optimistic.

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#16. Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.

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#17. But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad.

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#18. If you do things in plain sight, people don't interfere. It's when you get all surreptitious that the trouble starts.

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#19. People don't want to think about defects when they are drinking wine.

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#20. You know what we say in America about people who assume things? That they have two hours to get the fuck out of my apartment.

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#21. American girls always smell like fruit.

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#22. In the end, that's why some of us stupid humans get married. Because we know that we can lose each other and find each other again.

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