“Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep
“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
“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”Curtis Sittenfeld book PrepSource: Prep
“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
“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