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“I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“You gave me

in secret one thing

to perceive, the

tall blue starry


strangeness of being

here at all.”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation