You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.