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

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

- Jenny Offill

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

- 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

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

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

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

- Jenny Offill

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

- Jenny Offill