Michelle

“There is more to life than just continuing to do what we know. What got you here won’t get you there.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“I can literally taste the nutmeg silt from the bottom of a pumpkin spice latte on my tongue when her husband (CON) comes over with a towering plate of food for her (PRO) and coaxes her away from my table. I start to say “hey, do you like tweeting?” or some other useless shit, but she’s got that goddamn baby and this Jedi Knight is looming anxiously over us balancing a precarious platter of nachos, so I stammer out a “Nice talking to ya!” in my most nasal midwestern twang and go back to fucking around on my phone.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

“So if money is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That’s what all those criminals trade in: fictions.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“[A] person is a person first and a story second.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?