Other People's Fun Quotes

“She understood it was an opportunity, one of those rare moments when you get a chance to do something bold and risky. When you’re young, these moments happen all the time – weekly, daily – and you assume they’re part of life; but over time they become intermittent, and eventually they peter out altogether. Then you see them happening to your children.”
― Harriet Lane, Other People's Fun

“I look. I can’t stop looking. Are they spilling over with guile, or entirely lacking it? I am never sure. There they are, ceaselessly insisting on the fact of their existence, imagining someone might give a fuck… I do give a fuck, of course; but the wrong sort, not the kind they expect to solicit. Too bad. Beggars can’t be choosers. No, I never post. I lurk. I am the audience, transfixed, eyes shining in the darkness. After all, if someone wants to be seen, someone else must watch. These people with their brunches and sunsets: they are nothing without me. That’s the way it works.”
― Harriet Lane, Other People's Fun