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“I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
― The Madwoman Upstairs
“I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
― The Madwoman Upstairs
“A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
― The Madwoman Upstairs
“Clothes are like friends and fake plants: invest in the ones that will last.”
― Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It
― Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It
“I tried to compete with my ill-fitting Calvin Klein button-up shirts that I got at Ross and my imitation mini-ish skirts I got from the DEB. If you’re not familiar with DEB, it’s like the trashy stepsister of Forever 21 that takes F21 out for her twenty-first birthday, pumps her full of Jell-O shots, and convinces her to get a bald-eagle tattoo.”
― Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It
― Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It
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