Ariel Kaplan > Quotes

“It’s a similarity I’ve noticed between little kids and old people—they’re both always so surprised when anyone actually treats them like humans.”
― A.E. Kaplan, Grendel's Guide to Love and War

“Just your friend?"
"There's no just about being friends.”
― Ariel Kaplan, We Regret to Inform You

“I'm actually a very secure and happy person, and I know this because I tell it to my therapist every Monday for fifty minutes.”
― Ariel Kaplan, We Are the Perfect Girl

“I imagined a different kind of fairy tale from the ones I'd read, no ugly duckling or beauty and the beast, a story where the princess gets a choice: to be beautiful or to feel beautiful. I think if I could choose, I would rather feel it.”
― Ariel Kaplan, We Are the Perfect Girl

“there were only two reasons a man might take up a weapon and fight for a cause he did not much believe in: either he was afraid, or else he was hungry.”
― Ariel Kaplan, The Republic of Salt

“And who among us has not opportunistically eaten a squirrel?”
― Ariel Kaplan, The Republic of Salt