“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“When I was 14, a camp counselor explained what "eating out" was and I vowed to never have it done to me. It seemed cannibalistic and unhygienic. I also remember that she claimed--in front of an entire cabin of girls--to have been "eaten out" by one of the maintenance men in a hot tub. Under hot water. Either something is amiss in my memory of this conversation or she found the most talented man on the planet and all hope is lost for the rest of us.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's. ”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.”
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“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just the way "art history" would at the Met or "trust fund" at the MoMA.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
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