#ends

I dunno." She sat on the bench and hugged the robe like a pillow. "I still think that Brett guy is cute." "Good luck getting him away from Bekka." Cleo gathered her silky black hair into a high pony and pink-dabbed Smith's Rosebud Salve on her lips. "She's got more grip than Crazy Glue." "More cling than Saran Wrap," Lala added. "More hold than Final Net." Cleo giggled. "More possession than The Exorcist," Lala managed. "More clench than butt cheeks," Blue chimed in. "More competition than American Idol," Frankie stuck out her chest and showed them her diva booty roll. The girls burst out laughing. "Nice!" Blue lifted her purple gloved hand. Frankie slapped it without a single spark. "I hate to be a downer..." Claudine shuffled back into the conversation wearing her slippers and robe. "But that girl will destroy you if she catches you with Brett." "I'm not worried," Frankie tossed her hair back. "I've seen all the teen movies, and the nice girl gets the boy in the end. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#girl-bonding #girlfriend #jealousy #other-girls-boyfriends #possessiveness

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything. ↗

— Alexandra Ardonetto

#love #life

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length. ↗

— Martha Beck

#effortlessly #encouragement #fleming #friends #high

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#friends #lights #nights #ship #sincere

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#become #creativity #essence #many #performance

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#life #living #love #whether #worth

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#also #am #aunts #cousins #daughter

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#always #clothes #had #i #i think

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#five #friends #gives #go #like

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#colleagues #friends #great #lot #mine