When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she … - Jennifer Weiner

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I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am. ' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

Jennifer Weiner

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

Anxieties, Anxiety, Book, Careers, Tries

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I've learned a lot this year. . I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Adversity, Failure, Long, Love, People, Way

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Children, Died, Funny, Marriage, Teaching, Unhappy

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive. . . it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Grieving, Happens, Sometimes, Thing, Think, Thinking

We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended. . . and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.

Bill, Daughter, Kids, People, Working

Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

Worry, Doe, Clock, Roll, Good