“When a white woman commits fraud, it excites us before we even know the story. We lick our lips and sharpen the digital guillotine. We cannot wait for these public beheadings.”— Nayomi Reghay, vox.com
“To constantly preach about introspection but then lean into being a “self-obsessed mess” so much so that you put it on a hat not only says that you might not have enough respect for yourself to put distance between you and the descriptor, but also that you know that you’re allowed to be that way. Mo…”— Opheli Garcia Lawler, mic.com
“The Scam is a scam, and its winking self-referentiality serves in the end to do nothing much more than to gloss over that it is, in fact, a scam, perpetuated by someone who, probably like a lot of the people who attended the event, has a hard time meeting their rent.”— Anna Iovine, vice.com
“right now my rash is really hurting. literally i am having trouble peeing. how long till yours cleared up?”— Ed Solomon, newyorker.com
“Spodek told the judge that Delvey was woken up at 4 a.m. at Riker's and wasn't feeling well. He said there were logistical issues about how Delvey' clothing were handled.”— Jacob Shamsian, thisisinsider.com
“Considering how calculated Holmes has shown herself to be, it's not hard to imagine that she'd take this into account — we are talking about a woman who reportedly tracked down and stocked up on the exact Issey Miyake mock-turtlenecks favored by Jobs himself.”— Rachel Krause, refinery29.com
“We were just excited to be on a beautiful beach by the water listening to music; there’s really nothing that sounded better than that. And we wanted to swim with the pigs.”— Human Parts, humanparts.medium.com
“The subpoenas are an attempt for Messer to uncover the full scope of McFarland's finances in relation to the festival.”— Alyssa Hardy, teenvogue.com
“We’re fascinated by imposters and I think part of it is because we want to know how they did it and part of it is also we want to learn how they did it so we can protect ourselves. And part of it is we envy them in a weird way, or we’re admiring of them.”— Abby Ellin, thecut.com
“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, twitter.com
“Peter Gibbons: [Explaining the plan] All right, so when the sub routine compounds the interest is uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, drop the remainder into an account we opened. Joanna: [Confused] So you're stea…”— Mike Judge, Peter Gibbons, Ron Livingston, imdb.com
“Everyone’s first reaction is incredulity. How could even an elderly widow have believed something so obviously phony?”— David Owen, newyorker.com
“Why is she doing this? people asked, stealing glances at March. Some had a larger question: Who was Anna March?”— Melissa Chadburn, Carolyn Kellogg, latimes.com
“None of the influencers advertised were present, and it was unclear who was eligible for a meet-and-greet.”— johanna li, insideedition.com