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Book cover for City of Girls
It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight. That city will always be my perfect New York. You can have your perfect New York, and other people can have theirs—but that one will always be mine.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner
“I never misrepresented myself," he'd say. That was a favorite, as if people weren't supposed to evolve and change and make requests of each other to bend and grow and expand.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Astronomy was history. Because space was time. And that was the thing she loved most about the universe itself. When you look at the red star Antares in the southern sky, you are looking over thirty-three hundred trillion miles away. But you are also looking more than five hundred and fifty years into the past. Antares is so far away that its light takes five hundred and fifty years to reach your eye on Earth. Five hundred and fifty light-years away. So when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“That's the work of adulthood. Sorting out the good and bad within.”
Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

Taffy Brodesser-Akner
“If you are a smart woman, you cannot stand by and remain sane once you fully understand, as a smart person does, the constraints of this world on a woman. I couldn’t bear it. I saw it too clearly and”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

Taffy Brodesser-Akner
“That was maybe the the worst insult of adulthood, that even your silly, non-life-threatening, non-base desires got swallowed up by routine and maturity and edged out of your life for good.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

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