Angela

“The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don't leave. That's all.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“Editors are, at heart, twelve: if we can construe something as a fart or sex (or a fart AND sex) joke, we will.”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . . . ] This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing”
― Pamela Paul, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues