Clay Kaesemeyer

“What's the use in having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva."

"Erika, I'm a dried up husk."

"Don't say that, Mary.”
― Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

“I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors