Kennedy Harder

“I endeavor in life never to be anything more than defensively prejudiced-- certainly not haughty-- but this sort of unbridled use of capital letters and acronyms should have been omen enough to keep me home”
― Alejandro Varela

“It was a strange thing how people acted as if having a kid was the best thing that could happen to anyone, even though actual parents seemed to experience most of their children's actual childhoods as an annoyance, which they compensated for by bossing them around. People with kids had to go to work every day, at boring, reliable jobs. On the plus side, work was an acceptable way to escape your children, without seeming to want to. The children, having no such escape, lived through long stretches of boredom and powerlessness, punctuated by occasional treats that they overvalued and freaked out over because the rest of their lives were so empty.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“This was what people wanted: They wanted it all. They wanted to fit you in a box. Hold you in the palm of one hand. So they could understand who you were and the role you were intended to play for their benefit.”
― Megan Miranda , The Girl from Widow Hills

“Everything you want right now, everything you want so passionately and think you'll never get--you will get it someday." I accidentally met her eyes, and it felt like she was talking to me. "Yes, you will get get it," she said, looking right at me, "but by that time, you won't want it anymore. That's how it happens.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or