Steph

“Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she’ll sort things out and throw them away once she’s settled into her new place.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, ‘Voici’. “Man-eater”, I’d say. “Gold digger, roustabout, louse”.
“Who are you talking about?” my neighbors would ask. “What social climber? Where?”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“[...] its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others.”
― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

“If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.”
― Mary McCarthy, The Group