“But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.” — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m. One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, all the other wives think. Never.… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the… — Jenny Offill Copy Share
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving… — Jenny Offill Copy Share
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead, — Jenny Offill Copy Share
The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. — Jenny Offill Copy Share
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have… — Jenny Offill Copy Share
“Survival in space is a challenging endeavor. As the history of modern warfare suggests, people have generally proven themselves unable to live and work… — Jenny Offill Copy Share
I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that… — Jenny Offill Copy Share
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. — Jenny Offill Copy Share
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again. — Jenny Offill Copy Share
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my… — Jenny Offill Copy Share
