“Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.”Curtis Sittenfeld Source: The Man of My Dreams
“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”Curtis Sittenfeld Source: The Man of My Dreams
“If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep
“As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep (2005), p. 9