Amanda Erra

“I’m an individual. I’m unprecedented and unimaginable. I’m impossible.”
― Iain Reid, Foe

“People in LA were always recommending things that were more about themselves than the recipient. They recommended obsessively—films, Netflix series—as though their association with a piece of media imbued them with sex appeal, intelligence, an irresistible whimsy. When I felt a recommendation coming on, I’d lie and say I’d already seen the thing: just so I didn’t have to hear the plot explained. Did anyone genuinely like anything? So much art was bad. I preferred the work of dead people. At least the dead weren’t on Twitter.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“but I didn’t entirely respect her because she accepted my insurance. How good could she be if she was willing to deal with Blue Shield? I couldn’t help but see our sessions as disposable soap samples handed out for free at a mall.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“I didn’t entirely respect her because she accepted my insurance.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed