“Well, we're all addicts of some sort...part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don't want, don't need, and don't have” PeopleHuman NatureAddicts Book:Mary Jane Source: Mary Jane
“But I was happy for other things too: that I’d be doing something I’d never done before, that my days would be spent in a world that was so different to me that I could feel a sheen of anticipation on my skin. Already, I didn’t want the summer to end.” Growing UpYouthSummerExcitementAnticipationExperiences Book:Mary Jane Source: Mary Jane
“Putting on a dress was, like many other things, an effort to create the ideal self; it was aspirational.” Dresses Book:Shopgirls Source: Shopgirls
“She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love” LoveRelationshipsFamily Book:Drinking Closer to Home Source: Drinking Closer to Home
“It had never before occurred to me that sometimes dishes weren't just dishes, that things could represent ideas in more powerful ways than the ideas themselves.” 1970sMary JaneJessica Anya Blau Book:Mary Jane Source: Mary Jane