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“Anthropologie is not butch, phantom or otherwise. It is Disney with a slightly more sophisticated but no less carefully engineered aesthetic. It is to adult women what princesses are to little girls. It is a twirling motion in the form of an international brand.” (The Unspeakable Quotes)
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“But a dog confers status on a man. It shows he is responsible and capable of love. It will probably even help him get laid.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“Cooking fills me with a dread I can only describe as the sum total of every negative feeling I’ve ever had about myself. It takes my chronic impatience, divides it by my inherent laziness, and multiplies it to the power of my deepest self-loathing.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“For my mother’s entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I’d die young. Everything else, I’m doing middle-aged.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“It is why I hope that if I make it to eighty-something I have the good sense not to pull out those old CDs. My heart, by then, surely would not be able to keep from imploding. My heart, back then, stayed in one piece only because, as bursting with anticipation as it was, it had not yet been strained by nostalgia. It had not yet figured out that life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally – and sometimes maddeningly – who we are.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“It would be about one of life’s most reliable disappointments, which is that your audience, no matter how small, is always bigger than those who actually understand what you’re saying.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“My goal in life is to be content. By that I don’t mean “fine” or “basically satisfied.” I don’t mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I’m in the right life.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“My heart, back then, stayed in one piece only because, as bursting with anticipation as it was, it had not yet been strained by nostalgia. It had not yet figured out that life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally – and sometimes maddeningly – who we are.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“No matter where they are or who they’re with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I’ll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There’s always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“The idea of loving someone no matter what they do is overrated, not to mention largely impossible.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“They protect us from disaster by playing out the disaster ahead of time. They’re the reason the plane doesn’t crash and the bomb doesn’t drop. They’re the reason we will almost certainly not die in childbirth.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“To have an old dog is to look into the eyes of the sweetest soul you know and see traces of the early light of the worst day of your life.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“When I pointed out to her that he’d like the wedding to include his sister’s small children, she told me he had to realize he couldn’t always get what he wanted.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
“Your ability to see is sometimes only as good as your willingness to go unseen.”
Meghan Daum
The Unspeakable
