Quotes

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• Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – William Shakespeare
• Whoever you fall in love with has to love you back, or the ending just sucks. – Nora Roberts
• What we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. – Nora Roberts
• You’re excuses are so lame they are limping. - Nora Roberts
• Beauty from order springs. – William King
• You don’t smile because you are happy. You’re happy because you smile. – Iris
• Sometimes, the questions are complicated but the answers are very simple. – Dr. Zeus
• Confidence was like lip gloss – all you had to do was put it on. – Nora Roberts
• Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – Dallas
• Vengeance won’t heal a broken heart. – Dallas
• Rules are the thread that knits the fabric. – Nora Roberts
• Love is never wrong. Whether it’s for the moment, or it’s forever. – Nora Roberts
• You might like a man enough to go to bed with him, but you might not want to play with him.- Nora Roberts
• No friend poaches another friend’s man, even if she’s kicked him to the curb. – Nora Roberts
• Sex is better when you’re eating healthy. – Nora Roberts
• Men are like shoes. You’re supposed to try them on, wear them awhile – as long as they look good on you. Then toss them in the closet and shop for more. And every now and then, you pluck something out of the closet, try them on again and see how they look. The one thing you don’t do is let somebody else go rooting around in your closet. – Nora Roberts
• People and relationships never stop being a work in progress. – Nora Roberts
• It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation. – Nora Roberts
• Love’s scary, and sometimes transient. But it’s worth the risks and the nerves. It’s even worth the pain. – Nora Roberts
• Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I’m yours forever. – Anonymous
• Painting is a metaphor for control. – Klaus (TVD)
• Every woman is supposed to have one major culinary accomplishment to her credit – something she can show off whenever the occasion call for it. – Judith McKnaught (Paradise)
• Every man has a limit to what he is willing to take. – Paradise
• Every artist has a story. – Klaus (TVD)

P.S. There is a lot from Nora Roberts because I have been reading a 4 part series (The Bride Quartet) in her so many collections. I would recommend it to everyone that enjoys a good romance. Yes, fluff reading for now because I want to make my heart happy at the moment and romance is food for the soul - even if it is someone else’s.

Off The Shelf!

The past few weeks have been a little manic that I haven’t had the time to write nor publish anything. I guess with all the madness and excitement before and after, I needed time to sit and soak in everything like the fact that my brother is married!
The week leading to his marriage was a little busier considering all the plans we had to make for his and then attending a wedding for one of my newest good friends. My friend’s wedding was a good forecast of things to come and something to look forward to when my brother’s time came. Aside from not being able to really believe that they are both off the shelf, I enjoyed their dos.

Me and my gurl Mayi at our friend's wedding

31/07/2013 will forever be kinda bittersweet as my sister put it. It’s the day my brother got married. I look at him now and still find it hard to take in. We always joke about it with him in disbelief yet it is fact. Most of my friends and family feel I am too attached to him – which is true because it was just me and him for a number of years before my sister came along. Now, I am learning to let go and not be so attached nor interfere because he is someone else’s now. I know he’ll always be my brother but it isn’t the same. What makes all this a little easier is knowing he is happy with his missus and it is all that matters. As long as she makes him happy, we are happy ;)

Me, my brother and sister

Oh. let’s not forget the line up of man candy that is my brother’s friends. Dang! The last time I saw a collection of hot males excluding my family is during Eid prayers at the mosque. There is nothing as FINE as Muslim brothas in full regalia. I had my big eyes on two only to find out my number one choice is with someone and my number two was booked for hooking up to none other than one of my sisters. LOL. Well, such is life even when it sucks.
Amazing how I can write all this and smile to myself. Before, I would frown a little and then brush it off. It’s good I took time off to just let it all soak in and be. I am a happy hussy.

PS: My sister made sure I blend in with the decor in the first picture.