fill your home with love. or your bathroom. or your coffee table.

Allen Klein has a habit of collecting quotes and compiling them into small books for readers to enjoy. I like his style as I love quotes. Many of you, like me, spend hours on Pinterest looking through them. The theme of Klein's latest compilation is love, and the best things people have said on the subject. Words of Love is corny, sweet, deep, silly, all the the things that love should be.

I was nauseous and tingly all over.

I was either in love or I had smallpox.

- Woody Allen

(you can't really look inside, this is the only pic i could find of the cover online)

i had the time of my life.

I'm a fan of Allen Klein and his little quote books, I've reviewed other collections by him in the past which you can be found here. Today we are focusing on Having the Time of Your Life: Little Lessons to Live By, which asks the question, What is Life? Then goes into Why We're Here, and ends with How to Enjoy the Journey. We all need to be given a fresh perspective on life sometimes. Life changes are happening one after the other, and as humans we have the tendency to get caught up in life so much that we forget to live it. Klein is here to help with over 500 quotes and anecdotes that are witty, soulful, and will get you thinking about how YOU can have the time of YOUR life.

mom's the word.

I love when mothers are REAL about motherhood. The ones on Facebook who act like being a mom is the best thing in the whole world and only include status updates on the good stuff make me crazy. I know they are liars by omission because there is no way that their child hasn't pooped on them or someone else.

Mom's the Word: The Wit, Wisdom and Wonder of Motherhood is a tribute to moms including the best things anyone ever said about motherhood. Author Allen Klein included the heartfelt, but he also included the real life.

An example of heartfelt:

"It will be gone before you know it.

The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher.

Then suddenly they disappear."

An example of real life:

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.

There are a lot of pleasant things said about mothers in this collection as well. I like that part. Mothers should have lovely things said about them. I know they aren't technically perfect beings floating around, but to their children they are. You see, I don't really remember the stuff that my mother did wrong. I do however, remember everything I did wrong. And even if she handled my disobedience in a way that went against every mothering handbook ever made, I still only remember what I did wrong, and that she cared enough to forgive me. 

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