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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Like with wine?” Poppy was intrigued. “It’s not a book club if there isn’t wine.”

51. “Like with wine?” Poppy was intrigued. “It’s not a book club if there isn’t wine.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.”

52. “This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.”

53. “Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn’t bleeding. Sad is okay.”

54. “I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn’t bleeding. Sad is okay.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Find who’s fun and smart and safe, and stick with them.”

55. “Find who’s fun and smart and safe, and stick with them.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.”

56. “Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Representation matters not just because it matters that you see yourself in the world but because it matters that you see yourself positively in the world. Representation matters because it matters that you see not-yourself – people who are unlike you, families that are unlike yours, possibilities you hadn’t thought of yet – and it matters that you see not-yourself positively too.”

57. “Representation matters not just because it matters that you see yourself in the world but because it matters that you see yourself positively in the world. Representation matters because it matters that you see not-yourself – people who are unlike you, families that are unlike yours, possibilities you hadn’t thought of yet – and it matters that you see not-yourself positively too.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Mistake good because you learn, you fix.” “I don’t know how,” said Rosie. “Middle way.” “At home, there is no middle way. You’re male or you’re female. There’s no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you’re wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you’s not, that’s not okay.” “Not just middle way between male and female. Middle way of being. Middle way of living with what is hard and who do not accept you.”

58. “Mistake good because you learn, you fix.” “I don’t know how,” said Rosie. “Middle way.” “At home, there is no middle way. You’re male or you’re female. There’s no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you’re wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you’s not, that’s not okay.” “Not just middle way between male and female. Middle way of being. Middle way of living with what is hard and who do not accept you.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “If you wrote your own characters, they didn’t disappoint you like real people did.”

59. “If you wrote your own characters, they didn’t disappoint you like real people did.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.”

60. “That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Claude’s kindergarten was full-day, six whole hours of sitting quietly and following rules and being away from home where someone – everyone – loved him best of all.”

61. “Claude’s kindergarten was full-day, six whole hours of sitting quietly and following rules and being away from home where someone – everyone – loved him best of all.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Because you know what’s even better than happy endings?” “What?” “Happy middles.” “You think?” “All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?” “For a while,” said Rosie. “A while’s a long time,” said Penn.”

62. “Because you know what’s even better than happy endings?” “What?” “Happy middles.” “You think?” “All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?” “For a while,” said Rosie. “A while’s a long time,” said Penn.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Some sadness has no remedy. Some sadness you can’t make better.”

63. “Some sadness has no remedy. Some sadness you can’t make better.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “It was like when your car spins out on an icy road, and your senses turn up so high that time seems to slow because you notice everything, and you just sit in your spinning car waiting, waiting to see if you’re, going to die. He couldn’t loos at her because every sense and every fraction of a moment and every atom of his body was being in love with her. It was weird.”

64. “It was like when your car spins out on an icy road, and your senses turn up so high that time seems to slow because you notice everything, and you just sit in your spinning car waiting, waiting to see if you’re, going to die. He couldn’t loos at her because every sense and every fraction of a moment and every atom of his body was being in love with her. It was weird.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Just because it’s made up, doesn’t mean it isn’t.”

65. “Just because it’s made up, doesn’t mean it isn’t.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “A mom at a PTA meeting the year before had taken Rosie aside to advise her not to tack condoms to a bulletin board next to the bed, no matter how convenient a storage solution that seemed, a lesson she confessed, nodding at a first-grader in the corner licking paste off his fingers, she had learned the hard way.”

66. “A mom at a PTA meeting the year before had taken Rosie aside to advise her not to tack condoms to a bulletin board next to the bed, no matter how convenient a storage solution that seemed, a lesson she confessed, nodding at a first-grader in the corner licking paste off his fingers, she had learned the hard way.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Parent time is like fairy time but real. It is magic without pixie dust and spells. It defies physics without bending the laws of time and space.”

67. “Parent time is like fairy time but real. It is magic without pixie dust and spells. It defies physics without bending the laws of time and space.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “You never have enough information. You don’t get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less than your child’s entire future and happiness is at stake. It’s impossible. It’s heartbreaking. It’s maddening. But there’s no alternative.”

68. “You never have enough information. You don’t get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less than your child’s entire future and happiness is at stake. It’s impossible. It’s heartbreaking. It’s maddening. But there’s no alternative.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “There’s a fork in the road. It seems like there are only two choices. It seems like the task is to figure out which way to go, left or right, forward or back, deeper or safer, but in fact any of those choices is easy compared to the real trick. The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.”

69. “There’s a fork in the road. It seems like there are only two choices. It seems like the task is to figure out which way to go, left or right, forward or back, deeper or safer, but in fact any of those choices is easy compared to the real trick. The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Our road trip makes me see that needing help doesn’t mean there aren’t other places to get it besides home, other people who can provide it besides family, that having limits doesn’t mean I cannot – must not, maybe – bewitch and bewilder, range far and wander wide and wild. For home is like black holes – no matter how small, no matter how humble, they capture everything in range and trap it inside. The only way to escape their draw is to be far enough away.”

70. “Our road trip makes me see that needing help doesn’t mean there aren’t other places to get it besides home, other people who can provide it besides family, that having limits doesn’t mean I cannot – must not, maybe – bewitch and bewilder, range far and wander wide and wild. For home is like black holes – no matter how small, no matter how humble, they capture everything in range and trap it inside. The only way to escape their draw is to be far enough away.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “As I have said – and as should be obvious – stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read.”

71. “As I have said – and as should be obvious – stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Cranial neuralgia due to continuous stimulation of cutaneous nerves.”

72. “Cranial neuralgia due to continuous stimulation of cutaneous nerves.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world’s problems, overcoming your own. I don’t know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.”

73. “Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world’s problems, overcoming your own. I don’t know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “When a little girl wants to wear jeans and play soccer, her parents are thrilled, but when a little boy wants to wear a dress and play dolls, his parents send him to therapy.”

74. “When a little girl wants to wear jeans and play soccer, her parents are thrilled, but when a little boy wants to wear a dress and play dolls, his parents send him to therapy.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Easy is nice, but it’s not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.”

75. “Easy is nice, but it’s not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm.”

76. “Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love. Who doesn’t want that? I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.”

77. “For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love. Who doesn’t want that? I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Story is the best magic there is.”

78. “Story is the best magic there is.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Grass stain?” “Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.”

79. “Grass stain?” “Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “One thing on your list to worry about. Put all your worry into that one thing. Worry about it as much as you like, as much as you need to. But only that one thing. Anytime any of the other things flits across your mind, take that concern and channel it into your one thing.”

80. “One thing on your list to worry about. Put all your worry into that one thing. Worry about it as much as you like, as much as you need to. But only that one thing. Anytime any of the other things flits across your mind, take that concern and channel it into your one thing.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “At home, there is no middle way. You’re male or you’re female. There’s no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you’re wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you’s not, that’s not okay.”

81. “At home, there is no middle way. You’re male or you’re female. There’s no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you’re wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you’s not, that’s not okay.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Hormones contribute to intelligence and creativity, critical thinking, abstract analysis.”

82. “Hormones contribute to intelligence and creativity, critical thinking, abstract analysis.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “But some secrets are secrets, whereas some secrets are lies.”

83. “But some secrets are secrets, whereas some secrets are lies.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.”

84. “All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “That even when what people were waiting for was the worst new of their life or the best, even when the waiting was heavy with implication and consequence, waiting people still transformed into cranky toddlers, impatient and frowning and red-faced infuriated with vending machines that dispensed the wrong thing, and kids who did not use their inside voice.”

85. “That even when what people were waiting for was the worst new of their life or the best, even when the waiting was heavy with implication and consequence, waiting people still transformed into cranky toddlers, impatient and frowning and red-faced infuriated with vending machines that dispensed the wrong thing, and kids who did not use their inside voice.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated.”

86. “Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Tears crawled out of Claude’s eyes and nose, and besides he was only five, but he tried to comfort his parents anyway. ‘I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn’t bleeding. Sad is okay.”

87. “Tears crawled out of Claude’s eyes and nose, and besides he was only five, but he tried to comfort his parents anyway. ‘I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn’t bleeding. Sad is okay.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “If you wrote your own characters, they didn’t disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.”

88. “If you wrote your own characters, they didn’t disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “It was a crime of passion. “Mine to”, Ben nodded, also miserably. And which was worse, Penn thought. Out of hatred or love?”

89. “It was a crime of passion. “Mine to”, Ben nodded, also miserably. And which was worse, Penn thought. Out of hatred or love?”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “We have this perfect love story that feels like a fairy tale and must be because how else to explain something so magical?”

90. “We have this perfect love story that feels like a fairy tale and must be because how else to explain something so magical?”

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Laurie Frankel Quote: “Date someone who sleeps instead, someone who thinks slowly and deeply and talks in words that don’t need to be memorized from flash cards.”

91. “Date someone who sleeps instead, someone who thinks slowly and deeply and talks in words that don’t need to be memorized from flash cards.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “I mean, if we could have everything, sure. If we can have it all, yeah, I wish them easy, successful, fun-filled lives, crowned with good friends, attentive lovers, heaps of money, intellectual stimulation, and good views out the window. I wish them eternal beauty, international travel, and smart things to watch on TV. But if I can’t have everything, if I only get a few, I’m not sure easy makes my wish list.”

92. “I mean, if we could have everything, sure. If we can have it all, yeah, I wish them easy, successful, fun-filled lives, crowned with good friends, attentive lovers, heaps of money, intellectual stimulation, and good views out the window. I wish them eternal beauty, international travel, and smart things to watch on TV. But if I can’t have everything, if I only get a few, I’m not sure easy makes my wish list.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “It is not enough to be loved by your mother. It is a good start, and you wouldn’t want to do without, and it helps, but is not enough. You need also the love of your community, the love of friends and admirers, the love of strangers who don’t know you but still wish you well, the love that comes from passion and from commitment and from someone who will never, never betray you and not just because they’re related to you. You need more love. We all need more love.”

93. “It is not enough to be loved by your mother. It is a good start, and you wouldn’t want to do without, and it helps, but is not enough. You need also the love of your community, the love of friends and admirers, the love of strangers who don’t know you but still wish you well, the love that comes from passion and from commitment and from someone who will never, never betray you and not just because they’re related to you. You need more love. We all need more love.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “You have to help him unlearn it. You have to help him see that if he’s disappearing from the world, that’s too high a price to pay for fitting in.”

94. “You have to help him unlearn it. You have to help him see that if he’s disappearing from the world, that’s too high a price to pay for fitting in.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “She was in a book club?” said Poppy. “Everyone’s in a book club.” “Like with wine?” Poppy was intrigued. “It’s not a book club if there isn’t wine.”

95. “She was in a book club?” said Poppy. “Everyone’s in a book club.” “Like with wine?” Poppy was intrigued. “It’s not a book club if there isn’t wine.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.”

96. “I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “After that she’d have to go elsewhere anyway for breadth of experience. A different part of the world where she would develop expertise in more than frostbite, and lost toes, and idiots frozen to their fishing poles. But Rue, followed by Ben, followed by Rigel and Orion, had put a stop to that plan too; children being the enemies of plans and anything new besides themselves.”

97. “After that she’d have to go elsewhere anyway for breadth of experience. A different part of the world where she would develop expertise in more than frostbite, and lost toes, and idiots frozen to their fishing poles. But Rue, followed by Ben, followed by Rigel and Orion, had put a stop to that plan too; children being the enemies of plans and anything new besides themselves.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “I’ve lived life. I know what’s important. I’ve seen it all by now. You think he’s the first boy I ever saw in a bikini? He’s not. You think your generation invented kids who are different?”

98. “I’ve lived life. I know what’s important. I’ve seen it all by now. You think he’s the first boy I ever saw in a bikini? He’s not. You think your generation invented kids who are different?”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Besides, this meant she was going to need wooing after all. He was delighted. Penn was a student of narrative and knew that lovers should be wooed, relationships fought for, that anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning. He suspected she was worth winning.”

99. “Besides, this meant she was going to need wooing after all. He was delighted. Penn was a student of narrative and knew that lovers should be wooed, relationships fought for, that anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning. He suspected she was worth winning.”

— Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel Quote: “Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there’s not much of it I’d trade for easy either, I don’t think.”

100. “Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there’s not much of it I’d trade for easy either, I don’t think.”

— Laurie Frankel

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