My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.
When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere. - 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
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
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…
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. - Jenny Offill
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.
The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. - Jenny Offill
The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.
The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.) - Jenny Offill
The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. - Jenny Offill
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.
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
You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.
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
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 …
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits. - Jenny Offill
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
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