289 Quotes by Sloane Crosley

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn’t a requisite part of the package.

I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn’t have do acclimatize as much as I did to LA.

It’s not dissimilar to the reality-TV-show contestant’s ungrammatical attempt to appear grammatical, a quirk of using the subject pronoun after a preposition, instead of the correct object version. So: You have to choose between Brad or I.

Sometimes in New York, you’re walking down the street and you realize there’s a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn’t grow up here.

I was compiling a list in my head titled ‘Reasons to Get Up: You Don’t Have to Leave, but You Can’t Pee Here.

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there’s no one left to do the congratulating.

I find that anything culturally significant that happened before ’93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

The lies we construct to defend ourselves from humiliation are the strongest, refusing to be torn down.