80 Quotes by Laurie Frankel

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

But if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one out in the world could ever love or value or nurture her children as well as she could and yet that it was necessary nonetheless to send them out into that world anyway.

That’s what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.

What was clear, however, was that the Buddha was born male, then cut off all his hair one day and got enlightened, then ended up looking like a girl. And as if that weren’t enough, the Buddha also seemed to feel that even things as unalterable as bodies were temporary, and what mattered was if you were good and honest, and forgiveness solved everything. That was how, whatever else they were, Claude and Poppy became Buddhists for life.

Easy is nice, but it’s not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in.

If you don’t worry about something until it’s already a problem,” said Rosie, “that’s not worry. That’s observation.” The little girls who invited Poppy over had pink rooms and pink LEGOs and pink comforters over pink sheets on their pink beds.

Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

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