Jackie

“We all have wanted, at one time or another, to appear as an idealized self. "I'm actually a quite different person," as the playwright Ödön von Horváth wrote, "I just never get around to being him.”
― Tom Vanderbilt, You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

“It’s like being a duck. Calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddling like hell underneath.”
― Barbara Stanny, Secrets of Six-Figure Women

“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“He simply believed that lame sex destroyed more marriages than did anything else, and that “considering the inveterate marriage habit of the race,” something ought to be done.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex