“We kissed. I think I fell in love. Something that can in certain situations be easy to do.”— Scott Muska, psiloveyou.xyz
“He showed cameras installed in tissue boxes. Smoke detectors. Clocks. Pens. Water bottles. Picture frames. Outlets. Screws. Phone chargers. They were nearly impossible to detect, even when you were actively looking for them. It scared the crap out of me.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com
“Rule of thumb: When you don’t know what prestige drama to sample next, fire up a documentary instead.”— Vogue, Taylor Antrim, vogue.com
“My phone — which was sitting on the table between us — had been listening to our entire conversation.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I recently called a senior editor at a New York publishing company to discuss the experience of working with Mallory. 'My God,' the editor said, with a laugh. 'I knew I’d get this call. I didn’t know if it would be you or the F.B.I.'”— Ian Parker, newyorker.com
“He could not do that, because that was something that only an asshole would do, and he, Ted, was not an asshole. He was… a nice guy.”— Kristen Roupenian, medium.com
“I guess you could argue that the real prize was all the literature we consumed along the way — and, according to an analysis of studies examining the effects of reading fiction on social behavior, we’re probably a little nicer for it, too.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, your apartment would redecorate itself in only the finest and most luxurious of fabrics. The predominant colors would be Nantucket blue, slate grey, and the color of the sea before a storm.”— Daniel Mallory Ortberg, the-toast.net
“THE DELIVERY - a Twitter Tale for Halloween(Just follow the thread . .)Your Driver is 4 Stops AwayI blink at the tiny, blurred letters dancing around my phone screen.Then at the map below.Then at the empty vodka bottle below that.Oh crap, what have I bought this time?”— The Thread, twitter.com
“So. I am not going to teach you to be writers. You already are writers. If you weren't, you wouldn't be sitting here, believe me. But you all do need to get past where you are. Past the need to stand between the work and the reader so that he'll know how clever you are. Because good writing, is writ…”— Marshall Herskovitz, Ivy Dunbar, Lorinne Vozoff, imdb.com
“He may not fit society's definition of a hero, but he is the hero I needed. The hero who helped me recover from the disaster of my failed almost-marriage and get back into the game. He lives in the shadows. Is he a dream? Truth? Fiction? Damnation? Salvation? He is all these things and none of them.…”— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“I’m preparing to binge every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. The show’s lack of transgender characters, whether intentional or unintentional, brings up a lot of questions about what the future may hold for the trans community in a dystopian world.”— Jessie Earl, advocate.com
“A gentleman allows the woman to maintain her fiction.”— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“[about the incredible Sir Kneighf] Oh god, please tell me you don't have a crush on a fictional character.”— Edward Allen Bernero, Jennifer Jareau, A. J. Cook, imdb.com
“For me, movies are not about escaping reality — they’re about reminding us that reality is bigger and more magical than what we walk around thinking. They take us outside of ourselves, which is as real as our interior lives, and, sometimes, remind us of the importance of love.”— James Gunn, twitter.com