Jenny

“The truth is, when you are very poor, that 11 percent bites into the very bones of your existence. Eleven percent less means choosing between electricity, or food—electricity and food that is already rationed, and fretted over. Eleven percent is not very much—but, when you are very poor, it may form the bedrock of your survival.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“As a bridesmaid, on the morning of the wedding you will be unfolding the rusty metal legs of a banquet table and in the distance you will see a useless groomsman playing Frisbee with a dog. To rub salt in the wound, he might lightly ask, “Is there anything I can do to help?” knowing full well no self-respecting bridesmaid will task him with any job because he will do it too slowly.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“He had a good face to him, something chunky in his nose that I could get behind.”
― 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