But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing y…

- Jenny Offill

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

- Jenny Offill

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

- Jenny Offill

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

- Jenny Offill

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

- Jenny Offill

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and …

- Jenny Offill

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

- Jenny Offill

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

- Jenny Offill

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

- Jenny Offill