Veertig Jaar Quotes & Sayings

I was stunned. I pulled the phone away and looked quizzically at the hole-punched speaker. Aside from the blood obligation to be my sister's maid of honor, it had never occured to me that I would get asked to be in anyone's wedding. I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are the like the triathlon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall off their bikes or choke on ocean water. I figured if I valued my life, I'd stay away from weddings and they'd stay away from me. — Sloane Crosley

In Minnesota it's so cold some nights you have to wear two condoms. — Bruce Lansky

And then I realized something. I'd traded the farmer for emeralds with wheat from his OWN gardens. But then I thought maybe the farmer didn't want to harvest the wheat himself. Maybe he wanted to pay someone else to do it. The way I see it, he got his wheat harvested, and I got four emeralds. I think that's what Mom calls a "win-win situation. — Minecrafty Family Books

I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life. — Colleen Hoover

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita. — Buck Bannister