Elisabeth Egan Quotes

#1. We paused to nod in deference to a just-arrived mom of six who placed third in her age group in the Ironman and has a successful catering business, No Small Affair. Everyone suspects she's on meth but still, the woman commands respect.

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#2. When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing.

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#3. Market research shows that Haribo gummies are the leading candy consumed by voracious readers.

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#4. As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers.

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#5. And the moral is: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. - Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

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#6. Mary Baker Eddy: "Home is the dearest spot on earth, and should be the centre, not the boundary, of the affections.

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#7. My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

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#8. Sometimes you just know. And so you rearrange your life around what you glimpsed through a little window that opened for one second to show you a glimpse of something you might never get to see again. Even so, you know you will never forget the view.

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