259 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I’d known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, then graduated with boyfriends- to give in to such love represents, for them, a capitulation or a betrayal, yet apparently the pull was so strong that they couldn’t resist. That was what I didn’t understand, how people made the leap from not mattering in each others’ lives to mattering.

My heart clutched – it was one of those moments when you feel time is a rug that’s been yanked out from under you; everything around you has changed so gradually that it is only all at one you look up and realize how different your life has become.

I’m able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can’t or won’t treat you as well as you’re accustomed.

I think that there’s some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

He’s a lawyer in Atlanta, and he’s very active in his church,” Mrs. Bennet said. “If that’s not the description of a man looking for a wife, I don’t know what is.

I contain multitudes.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you’re there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you – that both are inherently unfeminist. I don’t agree. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.