Jen Comfort > Quotes

“I host a pageant in the mirror every morning, okay, smart-ass?”
― Jen Comfort, What Is Love?

“a task that required so little brain power it could conceivably be conducted by a trained cabbage.”
― Jen Comfort, The Astronaut and the Star

“The way he sang it, German was a beautiful language. But not in a dewdrops-and-flowers sort of way; in a velvet-and-sin, pinned-to-the-wall-and-fucked-hard sort of way.”
― Jen Comfort, Midnight Duet

“Okay, check this. The fact that there are 52 cards in a standard deck doesn’t mean very much. It isn’t a very interesting fact on its own. The fact that there are also 52 weeks in a year could be a mere coincidence. Except there are also four suits in a deck and four seasons in a year, thirteen cards in a suit and thirteen lunar cycles in a year, and if you count all the symbols in a deck they add up to 365. So, a fact is knowing that there are 52 cards in a standard playing card deck, but a good trivia fact is knowing that the 52-card deck’s design was based on a calendar year. Trivia takes this boring piece of information and makes it . . . magical. It makes meaning out of raw data, the way statistics does with numbers, except trivia does it with all the loose odds and ends of the universe.”
― Jen Comfort, What Is Love?

“To learn without involving emotion isn’t fully learning at all. We aren’t computers. Human intelligence is part knowing, part feeling.”
― Jen Comfort, What Is Love?

“manned”
― Jen Comfort, The Astronaut and the Star

“Welcome back! said the wind. This is where you belong. Why were you inside so long?”
― Jen Comfort, What Is Love?