Sloane Crosley Quotes

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you ‘can only take in small doses.’

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).

People tend to be more tofu-like, able to absorb whatever environment they're dropped into. But where does the adaptability end and your actual personality begin?

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

You should never wear anything you can't afford to lose.

Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension.

Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

It should be noted that my mother has a long history of being disturbingly unperturbed by what normal people deem perturbing. Certain things simply don't strike her as worthy of a sit-down.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.