The Queen Gene Quotes

“It infuriated me that men could walk around feeling perfectly good about their appearance whether they had a unibrow, triple chin, or skin flaps hanging off their eyelids, but stunning women like Faidra felt the need to have an unblemished butthole. The world is insane. Not”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“One thing I know for certain is that the longer I live and the more I learn, the more I realize that I know very little.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“Anjoli had the look of a deer that was told that if it smiled hard enough, the oncoming truck would stop.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“Not to make sweeping generalizations about men, but I can pretty well guess how this conversation would go down. Jack: Everything okay? You seem down in the mouth lately. Maxime: It is fine. Jack: Okay, just checking. See ya.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“During one session, the therapist returned from a trip to the rest room to find that another dog had dug a hole in a potted plant and buried Mancha.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“was like a crystal bowl filled with warm kettle corn. But when you lifted it up and checked the bottom, you could see a layer of burnt, unpopped kernels. The kind that makes you flinch from the unexpected bitter taste. The kind that may cause you to chip a tooth.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“What will I do? I’ll do as I have always done, darling. I will go on. I will survive. I shall overcome.” It’s tough to manage sounding like Scarlett O’Hara, Gloria Gaynor, and a one-woman civil rights movement all at the same time, but Anjoli pulled it off with aplomb.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“My cousin Richard always says that everyone has two marriages, but the lucky ones get to have them both with the same person.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“You’re going to carry around a dog in your purse?” I asked incredulously, wondering if my mother knew this was a long-term commitment, not a new accessory. “Who are you, Paris Hilton?” “Who?”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene

“He scurried off faster than if he’d woken up from a one-night stand with Lindsay Lohan.”
― Jennifer Coburn, The Queen Gene