“But you want him to keep talking, to keep listening. Maybe invite him to come up? No, too soon. You don’t think he’s a serial killer. That’s not it. It’s that you don’t want him to think you’re that kind of woman. The kind your mother warned you not to be. So you have not been. You are forty-two.”
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“Nothing ages a person like poverty and misery,” Harriett said. “Despite what all the ads claim, it’s not skin cream that helps some women keep their glow. The only true youth serum has two ingredients—luck and money.”
― The Change
― The Change
“The problem was the companies that sold shitty sanitary pads. Otherwise reasonable adults who believed tampons stole a girl's virginity. Doctors who didn't bother to solve common problems. Birth control that could kill you. Boys who were told that they couldn't control themselves. A society that couldn't handle the fact that roughly half of all humans will menstruate.”
― The Change
― The Change
“You seem distracted." "I'm always distracted. It's an unfortunate side effect of being intelligent. You wouldn't know.”
― Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
― Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
“Mr. Iverson, you've all the timing of a prophylactic salesman in a maternity ward.”
― Murder Your Employer
― Murder Your Employer
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