Ashley Riouff

“Marriage opens a joint account in the language bank, with 'we' as the currency, and that pronoun yokes two individual identities with different stakes in marriage.”
― Diane Wood Middlebrook

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“A three-year-old with insomnia is very similar to a heroin addict going through withdrawal.”
― Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat

“When I lovingly prepare breakfast for my future children, I'd at least like to know that I served them Monsanto-engineered cornflakes with rBGH-infused milk, diazinon-sprayed strawberries, and irradiated bananas.”
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter