#6 love the one you're with by emily giffin

• "With every fresh week, every new technique I learned, every photo I snapped, I felt a little more healed. Part of it was just the passage of time, an essential ingredient of any emotional recovery. Part of it, though, was that one passion was slowly replacing another. And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things -- time and an emotional replacement __ to fully mend one." (p 70-71)
• "It's knowing that when I walk out of our brownstone, I will see something new every single day. It's the diversity of choices and people, the raw urban beauty, the endless hum of possibility everywhere." (p 187)
• "But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter...

#1 the alchemist by paul coelho

• "...and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are." (p 151)

#2 m. butterfly by david henry hwang

• "I knew this little flower was waiting for me to call, and, as I wickedly refused to do so, I felt for the first time that rush of power -- the absolute power of a man." (p 32)
• "When a woman calls a man her 'friend,' she's calling him a eunuch or homosexual." (p 35)
• "God who creates Eve to serve Adam, who blesses Solomon with his harem but ties Je...

• "the greatest tragedy is to have the experience but to miss the meaning"

• 9 to 5 starring the original broadway cast (alison janney, megan hilty, and stephanie j. block) at the marquis theater
• a man for all seasons starring frank langella
• a midsummer night's dream with the new york neo-classical ensemble at la plaza cultural, new youk ny
• all's well that ends well with the shakespeare theater company, washington dc
• all the way starring bryan cranston at the neil simon theater
• avenue q at the john golden theater
• cabaret starring brooke shields
• candide at sidney harman hall, washington dc
• equus starring mr. harry potter (daniel radcliffe) at the broadhurst theater
• hairspray at the neil simon theater
• i love you because at the village theater in greenwich village
• the little mermaid starring sierra boggess at the lunt-fontanne theatre
• little shop of horrors at ford's theatre, washington dc