Taryn Potter

“Simone and my other sister, Shoshanna, had come out to visit me in Los Angeles two months prior with their five children. After two days of nonstop pool noise, I stared at the smaller children with deadness behind my eyes, looked at Shoshanna, and declared, “I just don’t get the upside of having kids.” She regaled me with her perspective: “Chelsea, sometimes I wake up and Russell [three years old] touches my face and says, ‘Mommy, you’re beautiful.’ ” I stared at her waiting for her to finish.”
― Chelsea Handler, Uganda Be Kidding Me

“Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify. Men’s Needs.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“It was human history, masquerading as God’s Purpose,”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things