“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep
“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep
“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
“I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.”Curtis Sittenfeld Source: The Man of My Dreams
“While I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep (2005), p. 321