Quotes from Jennifer Coburn

Every couple fights. The question really isn't if we fought as much as how we fought.

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway! It was the first time I'd ever contemplated that fear and action could coexist peacefully. I always thought I had to get over my fear before doing anything, but according to this Dr. Jeffers, I should embrace my fear rather than swatting it away like a swarm of flies. It

I am so excited to be here with you ladies tonight," Olivia continued with the enthusiasm of a mortician on Prozac. "We are going to flush blubber right off your body and you are going to love looking in the mirror.

Logan is a Girl Scout?" he said, shaking his head in his hands. I nodded to confirm.

and was struck by the next image I saw. Francesca's arm held the door open for Mike, whose bare arms were strapped around a dusty taped box with my name scribbled on it. My past giving way to my future, which embraced my past. Mike

It certainly wasn't as though I was left completely on my own. I knew that if I ever really needed help, my mother would be happy to outsource it to the most qualified consultants.

You haven't heard music until you've experienced what this man can do with his instrument," Anjoli smiled. Oh now she's just being cruel. "Okay, off to the bedroom, you two! And don't you come out until Lucy's off in dreamland." Bitch! As we walked up two flights of stairs, Henri asked if it was "deefeecult" to climb stairs with my cane.

I love to sing. It is my one true way of forgetting about the outside world and connecting with my core.

One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.

This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.

Without music, our culture is a poor and soulless place where people simply exist but cease to live.

Other couples are living separately ever after

It was that Michelle had the rare gift of taking people as they came.

MFA program at the University of Michigan when we met.

He interrupted. "No, Lisa, other families do not have sons who are Girl Scouts. I'm teaching that boy to fight," Jason muttered to himself, "A gay, black Girl Scout. What the hell happened to this family? We were normal back in San Francisco.

Timing is a wonderful thing sometimes. It can save us from ourselves.

When I die, I don't much care if anyone remembers my name. What matters to me is if people's lives are better, and our world is a kinder place because of the work I've done.

was like a crystal bowl filled with warm kettle corn. But when you lifted it up and checked the bottom, you could see a layer of burnt, unpopped kernels. The kind that makes you flinch from the unexpected bitter taste. The kind that may cause you to chip a tooth.

During one session, the therapist returned from a trip to the rest room to find that another dog had dug a hole in a potted plant and buried Mancha.

Rita could find fault with a twenty-one-gun salute in her honor. "Too noisy," she'd complain. "All that gun powdah makes me cough." Bernice, on the other hand, was overjoyed when a salesman from the cremation place informed her that her ashes would weigh about six pounds. "Thin at last!" she shrieked.

What Jews do you know who don't make comedy of their lives? It's part of the religion. I'll bet you think all that Hebrew at bar mitzvahs is prayers, don't you? Fooled you, didn't we? It's stand-up.

Not to make sweeping generalizations about men, but I can pretty well guess how this conversation would go down. Jack: Everything okay? You seem down in the mouth lately. Maxime: It is fine. Jack: Okay, just checking. See ya.

A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should've never done.

Recent medical research by the top 1% of doctors now proves you may actually be allergic to another person," the commercial began. Jason turned off the TV.