259 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

He seemed simultaneously like a stranger and someone she knew extremely well; there was either an enormous amount to say or nothing at all.

The tarps Ken Weinrich’s crew used has yellow and royal blue stripes, not unlike those for a circus, and this had lent a festive yet undignified mood to the proceedings.

I cried because I knew for certain that I was leaving home, and abruptly, I did not know if it was such a good idea- I realized that I, like my parents, had never believed I’d actually go.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always twenty years behind the times. – Mark Twain.

I don’t think it’s shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I’m so trying to give up meat.

If I’m at somebody’s house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

Part of getting what you want is asking for it.

It was one thingfor a person who didn’t really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away.