13 Quotes by Susan Jane Gilman

One of the benefits of TM, Agatha had said, was that it enabled you to be “alone with your thoughts.” But as I quickly discovered, a lot of my thoughts were not anything I wanted to be alone with.

Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations – many of which they’ve been cultivating since the day you were born.

Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

Fine watches, I’d been told, were like rich people themselves: You could barely discern them working.