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"I have made it to the infamous Justin Timberlake “Oh yea! Fo shiz, fo shiz, Genuwine! What’s up, homie?” line and the fact that Britney didn’t take off running Forest Gump marathon-style due to secondhand embarrassment really speaks to the kindness of her character." — Nov 11, 2023 08:31AM
"I have made it to the infamous Justin Timberlake “Oh yea! Fo shiz, fo shiz, Genuwine! What’s up, homie?” line and the fact that Britney didn’t take off running Forest Gump marathon-style due to secondhand embarrassment really speaks to the kindness of her character." — Nov 11, 2023 08:31AM
“Why do you call him a monster?”
“Well, an eight-foot tall green gorilla with web feet and bug eyes—what would you call him? A well-developed frog? Not exactly an Ivy-league type, anyway.’”
“I’ve met plenty of Ivy-leaguers I’d call monsters.”
― Mrs. Caliban
“Well, an eight-foot tall green gorilla with web feet and bug eyes—what would you call him? A well-developed frog? Not exactly an Ivy-league type, anyway.’”
“I’ve met plenty of Ivy-leaguers I’d call monsters.”
― Mrs. Caliban
“I think," she said, "I thought I was telling you a story about how we fell in love." . . .
"What do you think the story is about now?" . . .
"Sometimes I think it's a story about being tricked. Not that he did it on purpose, but it wasn't accidental, him confiding in me, just then." Of course every confidence is a kind of manipulation. Or calculation. I trust you with this. Or maybe it's I want you to think that I trust you with this.”
― Topics of Conversation
"What do you think the story is about now?" . . .
"Sometimes I think it's a story about being tricked. Not that he did it on purpose, but it wasn't accidental, him confiding in me, just then." Of course every confidence is a kind of manipulation. Or calculation. I trust you with this. Or maybe it's I want you to think that I trust you with this.”
― Topics of Conversation
“As any magician knows, it is not the smoke and mirrors that trick people; it is that the human mind makes assumptions and misunderstands them as truths.”
― Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
― Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
“Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house.”
― Mrs. Caliban
― Mrs. Caliban
“What I’m saying is that my life, like the lives of most people, lacks an origin story. I mean one with any explanatory power. Which means that my son could turn out any way and for any reason or for no reason at all.”
― Topics of Conversation
― Topics of Conversation
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