Kat Ailes > Quotes

“SOMETIMES THERE just isn’t enough cake in the world to overcome the sheer embarrassment that is life. But I was giving it a good try.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“all kids’ programs appear to have been conceived of, written, and produced by people who are, quite frankly, tripping balls.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“It’s good to have a friend who is morally superior to you in almost every respect—it gives you someone to look up to, someone to hold you accountable, someone to lie to on a regular basis.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“I imagine you’ll want to talk about babies and murders and stuff.” This seemed pretty accurate, so nobody quibbled.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“jeans that had gone way past distressed and looked frankly distraught.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“It gave the impression that we were driving into a fairy tale—one of the proper old fairy tales that is, before they were Disneyfied, all sinister forests and crones and some sort of twisted moral.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“There was just tiredness and resignation and still the storm, raging all around us, violent and uncaring.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“Jack’s crying would drive a chalk-tipped drill down the blackboard of his spine.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“Yes, picnics are one of those charming fantasies/lies.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired

“The day had that peaceful heaviness that covers you like a warm blanket of sunshine and invites one of those half waking, half sleeping naps.”
― Kat Ailes, Dead Tired