Muriels Jackson Quotes & Sayings

Do you remember in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! when the Grinch is alone on the mountain after plundering the Christmas of the Whos down below, and his heart swells to three times its normal size? That's the other thing that happens when you become a mom. You feel more deeply. You become capable of a raw, scary fullness of emotion that tenderizes the hardened muscle of the heart. And it endangers you. Because you feel for other people's suffering more than you used to, especially for the suffering of children, as if the love you bear for your child is so outsized that it can't be contained but splashes out into the world, your salty tears brimming the salty oceans. — Beth Ann Fennelly

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different. — Joe Teti

She didn't exactly miss being that age
She'd been a college dropout and drank too much and partied too hard
but she did miss that sense of living in the moment, of living to feel. — Sarah Addison Allen

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which — Daniel Kahneman

The curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable. — Diana Gabaldon

She couldn't blame them; the dress was spectacular. And she was spectacular in it. — Sarah J. Maas

Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created. — Sheila Kohler

He who smiles in a crisis; has finally found someone to blame. — Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

I love cigarettes. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is. — Sienna Miller