210 Quotes by Maria Semple

The truth is complicated. There’s no way one person can ever know everything about another person.

Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky.

I hated my life enough without having to drive past a Buca di Beppo four times a day.

As everybody knows, being raised Catholic with half a brain means becoming an atheist.

People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments between.

Pain I’m good with. It’s discomfort I can’t handle.

What the world is, more than anything? It’s indifferent.

How do I break it to you that people aren’t predictable? That life is confounding and sadistic in its cruelty? That when things go your way, it never makes you as happy as you’d expected, but when things go against you, it’s a cold-water jolt, an unshakable outrage that dogs you forever.