Heating & Cooling Quotes

“Already I was learning that some of the things I was learning weren’t things I’d need to know.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

“You’ve just read of a woman remembering an orange thrown through a window, without knowing why she remembers this. You will either remember reading this and know why you remember reading this, or you will remember reading this and not know why you remember reading this, or you will not remember reading this, possibly forever.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

“I would not be okay for so long that when okay arrived it couldn’t place me.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

“MOMMY WANTS A GLASS OF CHARDONNAY If you collected all the drops of days I’ve spent singing “Row, row, row your boat” to children fighting sleep, you’d have an ocean deep enough to drown them many times over.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

“I don’t remember what we ate or drank or discussed, I remember only the long table filled with high-spirited bohemians—intellectuals, internationals, the great unwashed—and how I yearned to be one of them.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

“That hen became our pet. The kids fed her Cheetos. We even competed to name her. Beyoncé is not what I’d have chosen, but we’d agreed before setting out Monopoly that the winner got naming rights, and Thomas had a hotel on Park Place.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs