Every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat–cheese and bread basically–but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies, ” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could’ve strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy–some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread–and I would’ve liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters’ fucked-up relationship with food. Gabrielle Hamilton
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
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Marilyn Monroe
Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) One time. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock) Now them butterflies in my stomach...
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Justin Bieber
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
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Jennifer Elisabeth
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
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Jennifer Elisabeth
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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Ally Carter
More Quotes By Gabrielle Hamilton
I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted ness of most people-but I knew there were people in the world who remained friends, for life,...
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.
Every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat–cheese and bread basically–but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies, ” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing...
This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.
