Status Updates From Happy Hour

“Once you open your mouth, people know where you really belong”

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"Aren't all women in paintings detached, simply unknowable? And in that way they become so easy to attribute just about anything to."
Maybe the portrait shows that in me. I don't see it that way." A waiter dropped off a gin martini for Ester. "But you know, I always prefer the way I see things,"Because it's all mine, and no one can convince me otherwise."

“I do wonder whether my memories should stay only mine, or have they ever been? Each time I tell someone a story over a watery Pernod, it opens that someone to the possibility of the memory; that's why I adore talking.
Then maybe the stories really are mine, not because they happened to me but because of the indelible details I give.
Maybe it is the how that makes them valuable.”