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I never went into their apartment, but what I saw from the door was pretty rough - not simply messy or chaotic, but hopeless, the lair of a depressed person.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
It's fun to see where people live.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
People had their places, and to not understand that, to act in violation of it, demoted you from a nature nut to something even lower, a complete untouchable, basically.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Dad doesn't pay attention when you talk to him, so Paul's taken to throwing the term IRS into his sentences. Then it's suddenly: "Hold on a second, what did you say?"
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
Delinquent style is timeless. Real trouble doesn't walk around with a ponytail. It doesn't have a Mohawk or special shoelace patterns. Real trouble has a bad complexion and a Windbreaker.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
"It wouldn't have made any difference," my mother said. "A woman like that, the way she sees it she's a victim. Everyone against her, no matter what."
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why. Friends have tried to explain the appeal, but still I don't get it. Why take chances with money?
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Someone in the back of the room started singing "God Bless America." The thing about "God Bless America" is that, after a certain point, nobody really knows the words. There's always a weird mumbling that follows "Stand beside her and guide her," and lasts until "From the mountains to the prairies."
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
"Stay safe," a Starbucks employee said to me one morning. I was in a hurry to get to my gate, so didn't stop to ask, "Safe from what?"
Calypso (2018)
If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
You can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up a little sometimes, but you can't kill him.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
In the coming years our father would continue to promise what he couldn't deliver, and in time we grew to think of him as an actor auditioning for the role of a benevolent millionaire. He'd never get the part but liked the way the words felt in his mouth.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgeable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
My trip reminded me that we are all just animals, that stuff comes out of every hole we have, no matter where we live or how much money we've got. On some level we all know this and manage, quite pleasantly, to shove it towards the back of our minds.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
Because I'm both a glutton and a masochist, my standard complaint, "That was so bad", is always followed by "And there was so little of it!"
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Shit is the tofu of cursing.