Kimberly Harrington

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Kimberly Harrington is the author of BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY and AMATEUR HOUR. Her work is also included in the collections MERCILESS AND UNPREDICTABLE: A McSWEENEY'S GUIDE TO PARENTING and KEEP SCROLLING TILL YOU FEEL SOMETHING: TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF HUMOR FROM McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY. She’s a columnist and regular contributor to McSweeney’s and her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, and The Cut. ...more

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AMBITION MONSTER is an unflinching, whip smart, engaging-as-hell memoir that invites the reader to reflect on their own relationship to work and the path that got them there. And it’s a clear-eyed yet empathetic look at the people in our lives who do ...more
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“He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. I’m general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about each other, period. You cannot spend your life with someone without curiosity. It is as devastating as infidelity, yet somehow working in a slower, gentler, more insidious way. It is being unfaithful to your own life”
Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

“I have come to this understanding: none of us will ever truly know the people we think we know so well. Our best friends. Our siblings. Our parents. Our partners. People are fundamentally unknowable. Even our children, people we have made. When all is said and done, we tell ourselves a story about who we think we are. We tell ourselves a story about who we think other people are. Their flaws, their motivations, their innermost thoughts and desires. We prefer our versions. We understand our versions. But all that aside, what we have in common is this: please see me, please care about me.”
Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

“want to be alone. + But what if I’m alone forever? - But I just said that’s what I wanted? I can’t imagine doing this again, this whole relationship thing, this whole marriage thing. But isn’t that exactly the type of sentiment the Vows section of the New York Times is littered with? - I don’t think I care about being alone forever. + But the devil you know, et cetera and so forth.”
Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

“Maine is not a death cult. I mean, it is, but it's a slow one. It creeps in like the tide, and without your even noticing, the ground around you is swallowed by water until it's gone”
John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“The idea of having several days, never mind weeks or months, to relocate to a climate that was better for your lungs or gout, or to have an extra home in which to practice bridge strategies and indolence, was unimaginable to all but the most wealthy Bostonians, who were inbred and warped. Their idea of vacation was to go north, to a cold dark place, where they would not speak to their families but instead sit in silence, drink martinis, looking out over bodies of water that you would never, EVER go into. Because the waters of Maine are made of hate and want to kill you.”
John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“I've only been to SNL three times, and one time I was there, Chevy and Billy were having a huge screaming fight in the hallway, and Michael O'Donoghue and Tom Davis were holding them back, and John and Danny jumped in because Chevy and Billy were really going to come to blows. I mean, it was a huge argument. And the thing I remember about Bill Murray—I don't know Bill Murray, but he's screaming, you know, foaming at the mouth, 'Fucking Chevy," and in anger he says, 'Medium talent!' and I thought 'Ooh boy, that's funny. In anger he says 'medium talent.' That really impressed me. I went, 'So, Bill Murray—wow, who is that guy?" —John Landis”
James Andrew Miller

“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.”
Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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