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"If reading David Sedaris books in the bath tub was a personality trait, it would be one of my top ones." — Mar 15, 2026 09:43PM
"If reading David Sedaris books in the bath tub was a personality trait, it would be one of my top ones." — Mar 15, 2026 09:43PM
A man around my own age, happily settled with a gang of friends, offers me his. “I don’t want to break up your circle.” The group, so vivid in their enjoyment of the evening, strike me as mostly gay. Out of courtesy to the gay social gods,
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“They have been together thirty-two years. No children – it didn’t happen for them – and the widespread assumption that she sacrificed motherhood for her career brings its own special pain. But they have a companionship that suits them.”
― Argylle
― Argylle
“Marielle was the life of the party, a weight lifted from her as if she had molted her skin and been reborn as someone new. Maybe it wasn’t a funeral she needed so much as permission.”
― The Celebrants
― The Celebrants
“I prefer edgy. Mean. The kind you look at and kinda know they have strings of meat between their teeth left over from lunchbreak.”
― Argylle
― Argylle
“Per Frau Storz, you could diagnose an evil heart because it made the carrier’s face resemble a “root vegetable.”
― Good Girl
― Good Girl
“I felt elated by the challenge, this group of friends who took David Foster Wallace too seriously and deodorant not seriously enough.”
― Good Girl
― Good Girl
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