Bright Lights, Big Ass Quotes

“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”
― Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass

“Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So when I walk - nay, crawl - out of here at the end of my workouts, I want to lull myself to sleep by picturing my very talented and inspirational trainer getting hit by a bus. A bus that I am driving.”
― Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass

“When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?”
― Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass

“The second prong in my revised Trinity is IKEA, the Swedish home store monolith. If you're unfamiliar, they carry every single thing you could possibly ever need to fill your home and garden at low, low prices, but in obscure Swedish sizes so those items won't coordinate with anything else you own, like, say, if you want to put a regular Target lamp shade on your IKEA lamp. Fletch thinks it's Sweden's master plan to make Americans so busy trying to construct furniture with Allen wrenches that we don't notice they've invaded us. (Personally, I think it's payback; the Swedes are pissed that we aren't buying ABBA albums anymore.)”
― Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass

“The thing about mass transportation is that it transports the masses.”
― Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass