Vanity Fair

"We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill, deserve entirely the treatment they get.  The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.  Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice"

Such a Pretty Fat

This book is a memoir by Jen Lancaster.  During one chapter, she writes about what New York City was like when she went to go visit.  In the book, she keeps saying how in Chicago (where she is from) people are allowed to be heavy; whereas in NYC people are not allowed to be heavy, everyone has to be skinny.  

"We went to all kinds of cool places, but every single one of them was just...so small. This happened last time I was there, too, but its only now I'm able to put my finger on what bothered me. Anyway the tables were wee. The chairs were delicate. The bathrooms were bite-sized. Everyone there is little because there's simply no room for their bodies to expand, kind of like they're all living Kk an overcrowded fish tank. There was something Dostoyevsky about the place, like everyone gets their square foot of space, and they can't take up more than that" pg 183

Me: Stories of My Life- Katherine Hepburn

"I just wanted living. Sin could wait. Living itself was a sort of ecstasy...the opportunities....the hopes. I was on my own in a high state of excitement. I did not need anything else."

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

"If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent.  And it never faded, and it never got stale.  And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living in the moment all over again" pg. 36

          "That was yesterday.  To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way.  We can never be quite the same again.  Even stopping for luncheon at a way-side inn, and going to a dark unfamiliar room to wash my hands, the handle of the door unknown to me, the wall-paper peeling strips, a funny little cracked mirror above the basin, for this moment, it is mine, it belongs to me.  We know one another.  This is the present.  There is no past and no future.  Here I am watching my hands and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.  
       "And then I open the door and go to the dining-room, where he is sitting waiting for me at a table, and I think how in that moment I have aged, and passed on, how I have advanced one step towards and unknown destiny"  pgs. 44-45

"Men are simpler than you imagine, my sweet child.  But what goes on in the twisted torturous minds of women would baffle anyone."  pg. 201

A Quote about Sisterhood

This quote came from a package I received from Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.  One side had a poem, and the other side had some important facts.  The poem made me immediately think of my best friends and Chi Omega sisters.  I know that the group of us will always be each other's best friends, no matter what happens. 

We have traveled on the road of life
      together for what seems like forever.

We have shared both laughter and tears.

Through it all we've stayed close and even
         in tough times our friendship has survived.

I don't take it lightly to have someone like you in my life.

I cherish our moments of joy and find comfort in knowing
     that I can be my "true" self with you.

Thank you for never judging me and for being an ear even
      when you may not have agreed with my choices.

I wanted you to know today that I love you, I value you and I
      will always cherish our very special bond.

I call you my friend,
     but my heart and soul calls to
you my beloved
       Sister.

House Rules- Jodi Picoult

        "Imagine what it would be like if you were suddenly dropped from America into England.  Suddenly bloody would be a swear word, not a description of a crime scene.  Pissed would be not angry but drunk.  Dear would mean expensive, not beloved.  Potty isn't a toilet but a state of mind; public school is private school, and fancy is a verb.

          "If you were dropped into the UK and you happened to be Korean or Portuguese, your confusion would be expected.  After all, you don't speak the language.  But if you're American, technically you do.  So you're stuck in conversations that make no sense to you, in which you ask people to repeat themselves over and over, in the hope that eventually the unfamiliar words will fall into place.  

          "This is what Asperger's feels like.  I have to work so hard at the things that come naturally to others, because I'm just a tourist here.  

             "And it's a trip with a one-way ticket"

pages 160-161