Jessica

“How's your day so far?"
"Oh, can't complain," he said. "You?"
"Can complain, but won't.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“You know how you’re in the middle of a sentence and you realize at the end you’re going to need to call up a certain word and you’re worried you won’t be able to, but you’re already committed so you hurtle along and then pause because you’ve arrived at the end but the word hasn’t? And it’s not even a ten-dollar word you’re after, like polemic or shibboleth, but a two-dollar word, like distinctive, so you just end up saying amazing?”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“Because the other way wasn’t working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honor and long shot of being alive at all.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“The world isn’t your friend,” Joe told Eleanor. “It’s not designed to go your way. All you can do is make the decision to muscle through and fight the trend.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different