Jenny

“Though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers.”
― Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories

“I’ve learned what my contemporaries will have learned in their first terms at college, or university—that the first friends you make in a new place are the ones you usually spend the next three terms trying to lose, and that it’s the people who are quietly holding back, and standing in the corner, that you will want to be with, when your second year comes around.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“She bops around really energetically but she’s also still. Like she’s moving her torso but her feet don’t move, and then sometimes she’ll take one step, and it feels like a thesis statement. Like it is a topic sentence about her butt.”
― Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories

“When she came back inside, she was gripping a yogurt cup someone had thrown near our side strip of garden. “Plastic doesn’t cycle.” She shrugged off her coat. “Right? We recycle it, but it can’t do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it’s everywhere!” she cried, going to the bathroom to splash water on her face.”
― Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories