An Te Chu

“True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.”
― Raymond Queneau

“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation