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When you’re in middle age, which I am (mid-middle age, to be precise—I’m now 52), you start to realize how very much you need your friends. They’re the flora and fauna in a life that hasn’t had much diversity, because you’ve been so busy—so relentlessly, stupidly busy—with middle-age things: kids, house, spouse, or some modern-day version of Zorba’
... See more(Although even in her twenties, Charlie wasn’t what you’d call eye candy: her looks had always been sharp edged and intense, more like eye tequila.)
Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
The last time I saw him was at the summer solstice festival, where he was bare-chested for the peach pie eating contest, letting the little old biddies in town put dollar bills in his waistband. Before that, it was Layla and Caleb’s housewarming. He brought strawberry shortcake Jell-O shots. I think he consumed the entire tray himself. “It’s funny
... See moreB.K. Borison • Business Casual (Lovelight Book 4)
Her married sister always said serial monogamy was like being a slow-cooker ho.
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
Leslie: I have three: Harold and Maude, Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
Shake got over Laura Klein pretty much right away, stopped working on his screenplay. Stopped talking about her altogether. “That bitch wasn’t all that,” he said the last time he brought her up. “Shit, she didn’t even know I was too young to take the damn SAT.”
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
Jason was twenty-one now. He worked at a bar. He still lived with Holly