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"It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction."
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"He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check "big show, I wasn't!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe. Or even hazel. Either way, wow, just wow. Deer? Headlights? Hi, I'm Ali."
"Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine."
"If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it's the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And there isn't a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive."
"Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed."
"You're dangerous, he says.'Why?'Because you make me believe in the impossible."
"Sylvia grabs my sleeve. 'He's a looker.'I know. The problem is, he knows it, too."
"15. "We all want to be happy and feel valued. We want love, connection, respect, confidence, health, vitality, passion, kindness, and success. When you generously provide these emotions for others, you activate the law of attraction to magnetize the same experiences for you."
"Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day."
"Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off."
"He parked the car, pressed the button for the roof to fold back, and undid his seat belt. 'It's an emergency.'Goldilocks giggled. She unfastened her belt and hopped onto her knees. 'Yes, I can see' - she glanced down at his crotch - 'That we're in danger of a detonation. What's the protocol in a situation like this, Mr. Environmentalist?'I'm afraid I have no choice but to advocate for release."
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"He hadn't treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and someday some boy would have it for me. I hadn't found it yet, but I would find it soon."
"I didn't know what I would do. There was no way I could survive. I stared at my damp tent ceiling, feeling the frigid air against me, the frozen ground against my bottom, so cold my bare skin burned. I needed to get to the next trail-town, Mammoth Lakes. There was no one here to save me now."
"I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek."
"My malady was submission.The symptom: my compliance.The antidote was loud clear boundaries."
"Children believe they are immortal, death is an empty word like the name of a country they've never been to on a time-faded map. I wasn't a child anymore."
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"But I couldn't say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the truth about her. My thoughts of my mother were wild chaos, I didn't know how to tell him we'd been enmeshed for as long as I could remember."
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