European Adventure Follow-ups
4 months ago
"The high rate of business closures and escalating unemployment rate made it tough for anyone to find work. Many of the jobless were well educated and hardworking, just like herself."
Boo. She wondered if Sudie knew that the old Cajun endearment had been taken over by Usher and the Kardashians and just about every teenager in the contiguous U.S.? Maybe Alaska and Hawaii, too.
"when life hands you lemons, you make limoncello"
"Favors done for the neighbor fine—” “Are best accompanied by a bottle of wine."
"Life isn’t hell; it’s a journey. A wonderful, breathtaking journey. Yes, there will be bumps along the way. And more than a few times, you’ll find yourself down in a ditch that looks so deep you think you’ll never get out. Some folks like to stay in the ditch. They like to moan and groan about how hard life is and blame all their troubles on other people. Little do they know that in the time they spent complainin’ they could have been out of the ditch and standing on top of the mountain.”
“All of us have made mistakes in our lives. All of us have been so angry at what life dealt us that we do things we regret. But that’s the wonderful thing about livin’—a mistake you make one second will be in the past the next.”
For example, from the first page of the book:
Asteroid 1,227 is called Geranium.
The ozone layer smells faintly of geraniums.
The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries.
The universe is shaped like a vuvuzela.
Lloyd explains "Now these, left bald, they are astonishing and almost incredible. But they're all sourced," says Lloyd. "We can talk about why the center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and how they know that. And that would be an amazing way of learning about raspberries, galaxies [and] physics."
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