These sorts of reasons are why I have always preferred Lost in Austen as my favorite P&P. I like to think Austen, with Mrs. Bennet, was commenting on the stock character “gold-digging mama” rather than actually making fun of the gold-digging mom. If ever there were a case of rational actor in an irrational world...…

I never understood the attraction of the “hero” in S&S or Mansfield Park. Both men seemed weak and foolish. At least Darcy had a bit more to him, though he had a jerk side too.

And now, an obligatory reminder of the perfection of Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon:

I know there are people who would never want to live in a place surrounded by cornfields, but my god, ocean animals are fucking WEIRD. I’ll keep my deer and occasional wild turkeys, thanks.

You know serious shit’s going on when you need to hide in the bushes because you don’t want to answer questions.

I wonder who wrote those Tweets for Trump. It’s funny to watch a draft-dodger condemn someone else about Vietnam.

Is it only, because I am a guy that I think “Handmaids Tale” is extremely tedious?

I don’t know old you are but there are typically protocols for this these days. Dragging a child down the hall way is not one of them. This ain’t the 80s anymore.

I am literally shaking with fear and rage. My bipolar disorder will cause any premium I pay to increase by 208%. I ALREADY can’t afford the premiums.

I am an editor, and I approve this message.

I’ll get behind architecting when stupiding is equally recognized.

“Architecting” made me physically recoil from my screen.

The second I saw architect being turned into a verb was when I started online shopping for flamethrowers.

I think it’s some kind of sad “My life is miserable but I’m too boring to get an actual hobby so I’ll pretend I run a business” nonsense. Just drink heavily like the rest of us and stop trying to sell me charm bracelets and supplements, Becky.

The problem with books is that you can’t trick people with a low, breathy voice which makes cromulent words sound positively scrumtrulescent.

“Architecting! Paradigm! SYNERGY!!!!”

TELL US EVERYTHING

Hey! Come on now! She worked very hard to enbiggen her vocabulary with such cromulent words!  

I am an actual, factual, licensed architect.

Are those quotes from the book? Because “editor and chief” and “another way of how I” tell me that her editor FUCKING HATES HER.