Tracy Ewens Quotes

#1. She once watched a documentary and learned that the brain was 2 percent of a human's body weight, and it was a testament to the neck and the spinal cord that it managed to hold the whole thing upright.

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#2. Cynda and her current crazy boyfriend. This one was a nude painter. He didn't paint nudes, he painted in the nude.

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#3. Meg considered her three big sisters, three different women united in a childhood of memories and the adult lives they'd fumbled through. She had spent her life trying to outrun and outperform each of their shadows, but she'd grown up on her adventures and returned home with clear vision.

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#4. The fog, which Meg knew from her father wasn't fog at all, but low-lying clouds, began to burn off as the morning sun continued its climb through a blue-gray sky. The Golden Gate Bridge came into focus right before her eyes through a cloud that caressed the crimson metal into view.

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#5. she surveyed the chaos of her apartment and told herself, as she had almost every morning for the past two years, that she would start unpacking when she got home.

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#6. Thanks. I was looking for" - he pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket - "Ms. Jeffries. She teaches Shakespeare, poor woman. Do you know where I can find her?" Cynda pointed to Anna right as she stood to leave. "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize.

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#7. It's sort of like books. Yeah, you know how you read certain books and at the last page you're filled with the story and you sort of don't want to leave the characters?

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#8. Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket?

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#9. It occurred to Meg that there were probably a lot of her mother's friends she'd never met. "Naughty Book Club. They've known each other for a few years.

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#10. He saw politics as a jumbled mess that accomplished little if anything at

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#11. Not his circus, not his monkeys.

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#12. Nikki Giovanni, 'We love because it's the only true adventure.

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#13. there's a lot of pressure this year with the team. I don't have the luxury of fairies and whatever other crap is in your precious plays. I have a job to do, a real one in the real world.

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#14. Okay, well, this has been enlightening and insulting, so thank you for both.

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#15. Sweetie, there's nothing 'just' about being a plumber. We are literally the person everyone calls when the shit hits the floor.

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#16. But oh, the irony of meeting about green initiatives over tiny disposable water bottles.

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#17. She was the baby and the sister most likely being lectured when their mother assessed all four of them and scrunched her face. "Meg, honestly, did you even try brushing that rat's nest?

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#18. joy and love came from so many places and often went hand in hand with pain.

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#19. it was better to be a quiet surprise than a loud letdown.

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