Colleen MacLaren

“In stressful situations, people often talk about a fight-or-flight response. Which, in my opinion, doesn’t give enough credit to the more common reaction of curling up into a little ball. […] For once, I made the decision to play it cool. Or stupid. Whichever came first.

-“Le Paris!” in How Did You Get This Number, by Sloane Crosley (2010), P. 219-220”
― Sloane Crosley, How Did You Get This Number: Essays

“But who knew what would happen once he got to Canada? Canada with its pacifism and its socialized medicine! Canada with its millions of French speakers! It was like…like…like a foreign country! Father Mike might become a fugitive over there, living it up in Quebec. He might disappear into Saskatchewan and roam with the moose.

-Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003), P. 507”
― Jeffrey Eugenides