“I cannot remember whether this was my decision or her command. Maintaining such fogginess about free will is, I think, a secret to a lasting marriage.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“As I’ve mentioned, I am an only child. This makes me a member of the worldwide super-smart-afraid-of-conflict narcissist club. And let me emphasize: afraid of conflict. Since I had no siblings to routinely challenge/hit me and equally no interest in playing sports, I had grown up without any experience in conflict. I therefore had no reason to imagine that confrontation of any kind, ranging from fighting to kissing, was not probably fatal.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“The Sky Lounge is not aspirational. It is desperational.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
“You should always pay full price for a haircut, but if you have the chance to buy discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup on that shit is insane.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“After all, there's no mansplaining like white mansplaining 'cause white mansplaining don't stop.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
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