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Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.”
“She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.”
“Three things no one has ever said about me: You make it look so easy. You are very mysterious. You need to take yourself more seriously.”
“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
“A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”
“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won’t just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.”
“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”
“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”
“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
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