chick-lit

My mouth went dry as I tried to remember all of Poppie__ tips for kissing over the years. She told me no guy wanted a girl with a mouth as wide as a guppy, who sucked his tongue with the force of a Dyson vacuum cleaner first time, or licked him to death like an overeager puppy. She__ told me to just purse my lips and let him lead and take control. Don__ slobber, don__ slobber, don__ slobber, I chanted to myself as he got closer and closer

Some people just don__ find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.

You tell me it's the institution.Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.Don't you know it's gonna be all right?

But it's all right now.I learned my lesson well.You see, you can't please everyoneSo you've got to please yourself.

I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in a book called Own It - Take Life By The Bollocks. She once said my name so many times I disconnected from it entirely.

Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It__ not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can__ tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend__ well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.

I plastered on my best poker face, attempting to appear cool and casual even thought I had never been so eager to deliver two Chicken Parmagianas in my life."Just be careful, hon," Rosanna said."Oh, are the plates hot?" I flinched back just before my hands made contact.Rosanna laughed. "No, but hot boys can burn just as easily.

If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream.

You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.

How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.

The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I__ absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don__ go, there__l be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.

Liza took her time sipping her tea. __hat__ what I hear Janet. Of course, living it up can take years off your life and add them to your face.

to be in charge. To be the wise owl. The comforter. I felt I__ moved beyond that. Gained my own wisdom. Found comfort in my own company. In just being me. The long healing process was at an end, hastened by these few days of sunshine and blissful solitude.

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn__ do that

From my bedroom window, I hadn__ noticed his earring and the Motörhead tattoo on his forearm. He looked like the kind of guy who, if a bomb went off in his watering can, would raise one eyebrow and say, __ell, that was close.

I__e come to learn that people are going to hate you and like you, no matter what. I__ rather be around people I want to be around.