293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

Please, God, or whoever’s up there, please just give me enough time to make it right.

The thing about bad decisions is that they don’t feel like bad decisions when you’re making them. They feel like the obvious choice, the of-course-that-makes-sense move. They feel, somehow, inevitable.

There would be menus, offered today by a girl.

She wished she’d spent more time teaching her girls that women should forgive themselves, showing them how to take care of themselves with kindness. The world was hard enough, would beat them up enough without them adding to the pain.

The girl, Gary’s girl... would keep bowls of Hershey’s Kisses on the coffee table, and she’d decorate the house for all the big holidays and most of the small ones. Probably she’d be class mother, and PTA president, and she’d deliver meals to the elderly once a month. In bed, she’d be exuberant, and would take it as an endorsement when Gary sweated all over her.

And here’s the good news: even if things don’t get better, you can always make them look good on the internet.

This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It’s worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.

People are like that. They can only give you what they have inside. So if this Sydelle character is giving you so much trouble, it’s because she’s nothing but trouble on the inside. She’s just delivering what’s in her heart into the universe.

I don’t answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I’m not here and go home.