Quotes from Susan Juby

If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. "Hmmm

Maybe it's an artistic genius thing. People who go so deep inside themselves, especially when they're working, that they seem like sleepwalkers when they emerge. Traces of unconsciousness seem to cling to them, lending them an otherworldly sheen.

To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived.

I believe the technical term is "space cadet." But she is the kind of space cadet many people aspire to be. My sister is fully alive to each moment and each observation.

like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.

Good luck with that," I said. Because seriously. The fuck? Strawberry social? Did I somehow move onto the set of the remake of Little House on the Prairie?

actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk

My mom made the trays out of kits she bought at Michaels. She's crackled the shit out of them so they look like they're covered in diseased rhino skins.

Bobby just stared at me. There was already crumbs in his mustache and it was barely seven in the morning.

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.

She's extremely un-suburban and charismatic and has this way of making you feel you're the only thing standing between her and death due to boredom.

Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.

The design is about expectations. Everybody wants something from beautiful people. From beautiful women, especially. But I think they're most stunning when they refuse to give anyone anything.

Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people.

Measuring someone is borderline invasive. You have to touch them and record their physical presence in the world. It's a pretty specific way to understand someone.

It was beginning to occur to me that I was a little too in love with stereotypes and preconceptions.

Our families are often the thing that keep us stuck

Got anything to eat?" I asked. "You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.

Enthusiasm isn't really my thing.

It seemed a little risky, enjoying something so… fun, but I couldn't help it.

When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does--distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).

When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers--no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription... (39)

She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.