Ridgewood Quotes

#1. I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants.

Willie Geist

#2. Love is a faux twinkle in the eye and a factitious curve of the mouth. Love is fucking unbearable.

K.M. Golland

#3. I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.

Lundy Bancroft

#4. Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

Verghese Kurien

#5. Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. You missed a pedestrian," I said. "You want to go back and hit her?

Rick Riordan

#7. An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way.

Marty Rubin

#8. He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. Remember: Pants=Love. Love your pals. Love yourself.

Ann Brashares

#10. You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee