"I painted the bathroom from a vile turquoise color to light pink and adorned it with white towels and furniture, delicate framed pictures following a French theme and pretty bottles of cosmetics. I quickly obliterated the revolting purple paint offending my eyes in the bedroom with a tasteful duck-egg blue and added white dainty drawers and wardrobes, pictures and paintings. Next I decorated the living room with big prints of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, a bird cage, a bust of a demure-looking Victorian woman and dozens of photos, cushions, and scented candles."
"There were always going to be offers, there would be temptations, there would be ups and downs, but you reach a point where you know this person in your life is someone uniquely special and you realize they can share with you the kind of companionship and love that no one else can come near to."
From Why am I always the one before The One? One girl's quest to bag Mr Right by Charlotte Ward
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From The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbird's eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas - abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
From Fragile Things - Short Fictions & Wonders by Neil Gaiman
From Fragile Things - Short Fictions & Wonders by Neil Gaiman
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