What Is Love?

by Jen Comfort

Antarctic (largest desert on earth, by geological definition).

“Good. In victory, you deserve whisky. In defeat, you need it.”

whose brains seemed to take the concept of living as a personal challenge and could weather nuclear winter in a trash bag if they had to,

and now she was afraid she’d fail at anything she set out to do.

idée fixe. Obsession with an accent.

It wasn’t the first time Maxine’s toxic relationship with procrastination had screwed her over, but since things usually worked out more often than they didn’t, she had no plans to change.

schools taught you there’s only one way to learn stuff, and that way is boring and uncreative and really designed to turn happy, imaginative kids into obedient cogs in the capitalist machine?”

So, a fact is knowing that there are 52 cards in a standard playing card deck, but a good trivia fact is knowing that the 52-card deck’s design was based on a calendar year.

she needed her defenses. Beyond those ramparts was an insecure, sensitive, glass-hearted mess who wanted to curl into a ball at the slightest criticism.

And then she stepped out into the world confident that there was no insult, setback, or rejection that couldn’t be deflected with a good old-fashioned Brooklyn Fuck you, asshole!

[New Jersey]

200 countries?” “195 by the UN’s count,” Rabbi Cohen corrected. “197 if you count Taiwan and Kosovo,”

Olympic Committee recognizes 206.

Answer “I would not wish any companion in the world but you; Nor can imagination form a shape, besides yourself, to like of.” Question What is The Tempest?

“You’ve got me a violet plant because it’s New Jersey’s state flower,”

With our powers combined,

I am Captain Planet!

I can’t learn if I’m not having fun.”

“A girl needs her dopamine.”

A favorite Sherlock Holmes line rang in her mind: Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill . . .

“Pain makes the pleasure sweeter.”