A man walks into a coffee shop. But it’s not a joke. I bought coffee there last summer. Small, with milk. It’s never a joke to walk in or out of a shop unharmed. It’s easy to forget you aren’t a person being shot at. I’m not. I wasn’t, though I was there, last summer. Not-shot-at and I never knew it…
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Koko Taylor walked up on John Henry took the hammer right out his hand and bent it and twisted it into a fine necklace and took him to a real nice dinner. Koko Taylor had twelve thousand wigs. One she never wore. Just kept at home. Was enchanted, spun from gold and full of rubies, and sang to her at…
My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No…
She couldn’t stop—she did it almost every afternoon while they napped or later sat upstairs with homework. She listened to the scrape of desk chairs on the ceiling while she measured and blended, hummed from oven to sink, redolence rising in a sweet promise she thought was required, didn’t know how…
Because words dazzle in the dizzy light of things and the soul is like an animal–hunted and slow– this buffalo walks through me every night as if I was some kind of prairie and hunkers against the cold dark, snorting under the stars while the fog of its breathing rises in the air, and it is the lone…
abuelita’s hands were a time card she clocked in and out, morning and night. they were a pile of dirty sheets at the foot of a bed, gnarled broomsticks, dustpans, and sooty vacuums, her hands were soiled rags in yellow gloves, they were two pillows beaten of mites and dead skin, her hands were paper…
Talking to someone and saying it out loud really really makes it sound almost ridiculous and it puts everything into perspective.
— Sarah Hyland, Sarah Hyland On Dealing With Chronic Health Issues And Her Suicidal Thoughts
Try replacing a self-deprecating thought with something more supportive.
— Nicole Pajer, 14 Toxic Thoughts To Let Go Of If You Want To Be Happier
The idea that we have to look a certain way to achieve any form of status in life is one of the hardest belief systems to change.
— Tanessa Holt, What I Learned After Losing More Than 100 Pounds
Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason I’m so into S is because he fits the vision I had for my life in New York. Dressing up, going to clubs I can’t afford, and being the chill, hot girl. He’s already shown me a side of the city that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
— Sex Diaries, The Assistant Going Clubbing With Wealthy Businessmen
If the dome was to be built, the port-a-potties would have to go — and that wasn't going to happen.
— Christopher Luu, We Finally Know the Real Reason Kanye West Isn't Headlining Coachella
I felt his name in my mouth and wondered what it would feel like to whisper it some morning, so close my lips would touch his ear as we lay in a tangle of white sheets with the sun of a new day pouring in through the window.
Cape/groundsheets were used in the Australian army up until the 1970s. As opposed to wigs, which serve no function whatsoever, cloaks are all purpose garments.
— Jennifer Wright, Serious Question, When and Why Did Men Stop Wearing Capes?
Stuck between the wave of atomic monsters in the ‘50s and the formation of modern horror as we know it in the ‘70s, the ‘60s is a little harder to pinpoint.
— Meagan Navarro, 10 Great Horror Movies from the ’60s You Maybe Haven’t Seen
I feel like New York is a grey city, so when you’re in your apartment you want to have some color in there.
— Asya Ambaretsa, My 1-Bedroom In Brooklyn Costs $2,700 — Here's How Big It Is
That Instagram influencer I occasionally check in on because she's The Worst is now charging $165 for a 4 hour "seminar" on how to be yourself.
— Kayleigh Donaldson, Influencers, Scams, And Why You Shouldn't Order 1200 Mason Jars To An NYC Apartment
Your energy and ideas and competence and spirit turn me on. You make me better. You’re meant for me. I know it more clearly than I’ve ever known anything.
— Jeff Bezos, Bezos Shared Wife’s Pillow Talk With Mistress, Boasted About U2’s Bono
Life is full of things that feel like traps. Our own weaknesses and mistakes. Unlucky accidents. The violence done to us by others. But they’re not always what they seem. Sometimes later we see that they led us where we needed to go.
I’ve always been a morning person. I just love it. I’m always amazed when I come across a writer who does their writing after they’ve lived a whole day.
— MacKenzie Bezos, A Fiendish Conversation with MacKenzie Bezos
It’s also part of a wider pattern of how the stories of tech companies get told, which erases the many individuals who help to build them in favor of highlighting the 'lone genius' at the helm. Many of the people who fade to the background have been women.
— Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder