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Claire Messud
“Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.”
Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud
“[S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.”
Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

Simon Rich
“It’s not just about Jen,” he said. “It’s about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It’s a complete injustice.”
Simon Rich, The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories

“The krill are in a rebuilding year. The krill are always in a rebuilding year. Every year the whole franchise of 60,000,000,000 krill gets eaten. Team Whale sucks Team Krill into the primordial combs of its baleen plates at twenty-eight knots. We’ve got a decent offense but we’ve got a pretty dismal record on defense. But this is going to be our season. With all your might, try to believe that.”
Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Sharon Olds
“I've said that he and I had been crazy
for each other. But maybe my ex and I were not
crazy for each other. Maybe we
were sane for each other, as if our desire
was almost not even personal -
it was personal, but that hardly mattered, since there
seemed to be no other woman
or man in the world.”
Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
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