Quotes by : Jenny Offill

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills....

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck.....

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love....

I hate often and easily. I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim....

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed....

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head.....

Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure....

My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump....

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that....

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years....