259 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

Autocorrect can happen to anyone, but I seriously don’t understand what goes on between him and his phone.

I feel like as I’ve gotten older I’ve unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.

Well – ” My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. “What I remember,” she said, “is that you were always such a dear little girl.

But I never thought of who he wasn’t, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn’t even care what we talked about.

The fact is that in this day and age I don’t think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

I’m old enough to know that sometimes you don’t get a second chance.

I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony.

I bet things would be easier for you if you either realized you’re not that weird or decided that being weird isn’t bad.

Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn’t exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.