Worry Quotes

“There’s never been a reality in which I could be a serious thinker, a serious writer. I’m a Floridian. I’m a consumer. I’ll never blossom into the woman of ideas I like to imagine myself as late at night. It’s not that art is dead. It’s just that I’m not going to be one of the ones who makes it.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“Being alive,” Poppy says. “Getting strep is part of being alive.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“I can see the end of art and culture and sometimes even human life if I’ve been scrolling through the right pages for long enough.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“I realize how moronic it is, flirting with the idea of uprooting my life and leaving my rent-stabilized place to live forty-five minutes closer to a guy I've been fucking for nine weeks - and not even really fucking, technically, because after the first blow job I gave him, I got strep, which I always get when I give someone new a blow job, and which necessitated oral antibiotics, which dulled the efficacy of my birth control, but Jon didn't want to use condoms, so we couldn't have intercourse, and he was going down on me so much that I got a yeast infection, which then turned into bacterial vaginosis, which necessitated a vaginal antibiotic inserted with an applicator nightly for a week, which caused a rash, which I convinced myself, after seeing an Instagram infographic about how HIV can live undetectable in the human body for up to ten years, had to be late-stage AIDS, a line of thinking that gave me debilitating diarrhea, which is of course a symptom of late-stage AIDS, which got me so worked up that I made an early-morning trip to urgent care for an HIV test, which was negative, which relieved the diarrhea but not the rash, which required a trip to the gynecologist...”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“Poppy tells a story about a friend of hers who used to coach coed youth soccer on weekends. Her friend’s team of six-year-olds had decided to call themselves “The Mommies and the Daddies.” “Which friend?” I ask. “Anna, old roommate Anna?” “Actually,” Poppy says, “it’s not a story from a friend. It’s just a funny tweet I saw.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“People who kill themselves are at the very end of their pain. The terminus of their pain... Their pain is so huge, so real, so consuming that they can't see or feel anything but pain. They're on fire.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“The next slide is an up-close selfie of her looking sad. There's lots of text over this one. 'The #Berkey is so much more than a kitchen staple. Do you know what's in your tap water? The government does. Fluoride is a toxic substance that has been proven to cause disease, brain fog, and multiple health issues. I believe we are being controlled by fluoride in ways I can't discuss on here just yet. But for now I'll just say that fluoride interferes with the functioning of the thyroid and it is said to shut the door to your gateway to God...”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“can see the end of art and culture and sometimes even human life if I’ve been scrolling through the right pages for long enough.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“She just loudly lost a game of online chess, and now she’s looking at real estate. Both chess and real estate inspire violence in her.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“Abortion shouldn't be serious. It's a normal medical procedure. It's like a corn removal or a tonsillectomy or whatever.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry

“Our mother hates Mormons, or claims to. She always used to say that they were gentiles who wanted to create for themselves the persecution the Jews felt so they could imagine themselves as special.”
― Alexandra Tanner, Worry