Amanda

“I offer her some birthday cake. She goes into the usual bit about temptation and sinfulness and maybe this and maybe that, and we have to go through every station of the fucking cross before she takes a bite of it.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“This was just what people did now. We went from emotion to phone. This was how you didn’t die in the twenty-first century.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!” I say, but he is unmoved. “People always talk about email and phones and how they alienate us from one another, but these sorts of fears about technology have always been with us,” he claims.

When electricity was first introduced to homes, there were letters to the newspapers about how it would undermine family togetherness. Now there would be no need to gather around a shared hearth, people fretted. In 1903, a famous psychologist worried that young people would lose their connection to dusk and its contemplative moments.

Hahaha!

(Except when was the last time I stood still because it was dusk?)”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“If I saw no humour in my unraveling, I'd have been dead long ago.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley