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Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. Meet Rose's sister Maggie.... read more

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  • Rose Feller: Maggie Feller's sister; one of the main characters.
  • Maggie Feller: Younger sister of Rose, a troubled woman with an inflated opinion of herself.
  • Simon Stein: Lawyer at Rose's firm.
  • Ella Hirsch: Rose and Maggie's grandmother.
  • Mrs. Lefkowitz: Neighbor at Golden Acres, had a stroke. Funny and helpful to Maggie and Ella. Wanted more friends, brought people together
  • Lewis: Neighbor at Golden Acres, runs the newspaper.
  • Sydelle: Rose and Maggie's Stepmonster.
  • Jim Danvers: Partner at Rose's firm. Rose has an affair with him
  • Caroline: Rose and Maggie's mother.
  • Amy: Rose's best friend.
  • My Marcia: Nickname that Sydelle is always calling her daughter.
  • Don Dommel: Leader at Rose's law firm, obsessed with sports philosophy.
  • Charles: Student Maggie meets at Princeton.
  • Dora: Woman at the Golden Acres pool.
  • Michael Feller: Rose and Maggie's father.
  • Jack: Man at the Golden Acres pool.
  • Josh: Creep at Princeton.
  • Petunia: A princess pug.
  • Shirley: Owner of Petunia.
  • Marcia: Sydelle's daughter; calls her 'My Marcia' all the time.
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  • “...She wouldn't think about the daughter-who-was-gone, or the grandchildren she would never get to know, about the life that was snatched away from her, excised as cleanly and completely as a tumor, leaving not even a scar for her to cherish, to remember it by”
    Ella Hirsch
  • “...still felt as if somewhere between the ages of fourteen and sixteen she'd walked off the edge of a cliff and had been falling ever since”
  • “Like the past was something you can leave behind like a candy bar wrapper or a pair of shoes you'd outgrown.”
    Rose Feller
  • “...unless they know where to look and what to look for. It was exactly the effect that Maggie was seeking for herself. To be there, but not really there, to be present but invisible at the same time”
  • “The greatest journey begins with a single step”
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  • “ ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i
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  • “I think you give them unconditional love, and support, and the occasional cash infusion. You give them a place to come, when they need somewhere to go, and you try not to tell them what to do, because they get plenty of that from their parents. And then you let them figure it out for themselves.”
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  • the Chinese symbol for crisis was the same as the one for opportunity.
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  • One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
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  • Contents PART ONE In
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First Sentence edit see section history

“Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.”

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part 1: In Her Shoes
Part 2: Continuing Education
Part 3: I Carry Your Heart

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jennifer Weiner (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Atria Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 17, 2002
ISBN: 0743418190
Page Count: 432

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: S3573.E3935 I7 2002
  • Dewey: 813.6

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