Bananapants

by Penny Reid

“Look the same as you did when you were six, just with all your teeth. This is some fucking cutie-pie shit.”

“She sees red flags as red carpets. Until some morally gray man in a three-piece suit finds her in the rain and gives her an umbrella, she’ll never be satisfied. We’re counting on you.”

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“I’m in a glass case of emotion!” — Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

“You don’t win friends with salad.” — The Simpsons

I’d known from the beginning. I’d known in the bar and in the car, in my head and on the bed. I did like Desmond and green eggs and ham, I did like them, Ava I am.

It was the slowest elevator known to humankind and eighty-four years later, we arrived at Des’s floor.

“I was barely conscious but my standards were still awake.” — Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey