Wayne is my favorite when he is with Marasi, but he is still hilarious even without her.

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"Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Them them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt."

"We accept the lie that there‘s a perfect way of eating that will save your soul and send you careering blithely through your eighties, into your nineties and beyond. Do what you want, we‘re told – but you‘ll die if you get it wrong."

I'm absolutely loving this book. Food has been a struggle for me lately, especially as a mom. I feel I owe it to my child to eat well, but at the same time diet culture and anxiety have taken away all of the enjoyment I have in food. These words are helping me so much to view food - my favorite foods as well, not just the "proper" sounding foods - in a way that also fits in with my own identity. And I think that is incredible.

It has been ages since I've used Litsy, but it is cool to be back! I've returned with a huge book slump to fix, and a need for some fluffy fiction to sink into. Life is kind of crazy right now (lots of moving around and pregnancy and baby and postpartum and more moving in the past few years) so I'm unashamedly in need of all the good comfort reads.

"Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else."

"Because if I tell the story, I control the version. If I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it." - Nora Ephron

Right now I'm massively pregnant and in need of a good laugh, and these two are just what I needed for a day of guilty pleasure reading. I kind of hate all of the characters in Heartburn, but Nora Ephron's style just wins me over no matter what.

#libraryreads #guiltypleasure

I love that phrase, "driving sorrow out of the house with a broom."

My husband and I have been reading this aloud every night to the baby (who is due to make his appearance this month), and I'm finding it a very comforting read for right now.

This is awesome. I need it as a coffee table book.

It‘s not just the physical space that‘s different in France. I‘m also struck by the nearly universal assumption that even good mothers aren‘t at the constant service of their children, and that there‘s no reason to feel bad about that.

“Human beings speak to other human beings. Some of them are big, some of them are small. But they communicate.”

“In the U.S. sometimes I have the feeling that if it‘s not difficult for you, you have to feel bad about that.”