“Self-control is not about slimming down but about simmering down.”
“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.”
“I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.”
“Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.”
“This is Lancre we’re talkin’ about. If we was men, we’d be talking about layin’ down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.”
“Remember, you are not a heavy person trying to slim down. You are a trim, healthy person learning how to reemerge.”