Amanda Thompson

“You thought it was hard? If kindergarten is busting your ass, I got some bad news for you about the rest of life.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.”
― Howard Jacobson

“On Chivalry “Give your mother the front seat…. I don’t give a shit if she said you could have it, that’s what she’s supposed to do, and you’re supposed to say, ‘No, I insist.’ You think I’m gonna drive around with my wife in the backseat and a nine-year-old in the front? You’re a crazy son of a bitch.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return