40 Quotes by Wendy Wax

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

Like Andy Rooney and Judy Garland screaming “Let’s put on a play!” the.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. – W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.

Like Pig-Pen from the Charlie Brown comic strip, her cloud hovered over her, dark and daunting and devoid of a silver lining.

The last time you gave me ‘Hightower detail’ he caught me with his underwear in my hands.” “I’m sorry I missed that.” Nicole’s voice rang with suppressed laughter. “We’re all sorry we missed that,” Deirdre added. “I can’t tell you how much I wish I’d missed that,” Maddie said drily.

Do you think there’s really a job where all you do is count the number of threads in a sheet? It sounds a whole lot easier than the Laundromat and the diner.

And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.

Somehow she’d clabbered together a series of student loans to get her undergraduate degree at Boston College. Her graduation gift to herself was a new name and a new city.

If Steve didn’t have a job, where did he go every day after he put on his suit and strolled out the door with his briefcase? More important, why hadn’t he told her?