Status Updates From La Dolce Veto

Reading and listening...loving the narrator! She's nailing the voices and the humour and banter in this is fantastic 😍.

“Maybe the dream isn’t the destination, it’s the journey—or whatever the wooden sign my mom bought at HomeGoods said.”

“Maybe after everything I’ve been through, I’m finally realizing that if other people know I’m struggling, it doesn’t matter. I get to feel what I feel, and they’ll just have to deal.”

“I know destiny is a mirage, a trick into letting life pass you by while you chase a shiny object through a sparse desert to no avail. A way to convince yourself you have a purpose instead of accepting that you are a sack of organs and bones meant only to breathe in and breathe out until you no longer can.”

“She’s like a bee: You ignore her, she goes away.”
“Or you let it sting you and it dies later, learning an important lesson about karma.”

“How are you on the Select Committee of Intelligence when you can’t keep a single secret?”
“It’s because I’m keeping national security secrets that I must gossip about everything else to get it all out of my system,” Marisol says. “You’re keeping America safer by banging the mayor.”
“At least I’m still helping in some way.”

I love Marisol XD

“You banged the mayor?”
“Don’t say that so loudly. I’ll remind you I’m living at his very Catholic mother’s house.”
“And ya banged anyway.”

“His mood is so much lighter than it’s been all day, and a thrill runs through me to know I’m its cause.”

“If you skip the less pleasant parts, you’ll never appreciate the good.
See that? Concrete that’ll last forever. Hundreds of kilometers of nothing special. But once we see Lake Como, after hours of nothing but road and concrete and dirt, it’ll be even more magnificent in comparison.”

“The idea of seeing everything the world has to offer, while once maybe an intriguing idea, now makes me tired.”

“Couldn’t he have come in here with two glasses of vino and lured me into bed like a normal person? Why isn’t anyone ever trying to use me? Other girls get late-night u up texts and all I ever get is to freaking yearn.”

“Oh my god, Izzy. You’re over 30. Use a man for sex. Who gives a fuck?”

Marisol is kinda right

“Wait, was that racist?” She shakes her head. “I’ve been hanging out with too many congressmen.”

“I’m not a fan of this trend where I find out I misjudged Benito and he’s actually a selfless angel who deserves to be sainted and not a pompous curmudgeon. Or at least, I try to convince myself I don’t like it, when really any evidence that he’s a compassionate, loving human being makes me want to reach out and touch him.”