Famous Jenny Offill Quotes

  • Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad. – Jenny Offill

    Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.– Jenny Offill

  • Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I’d say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it. – Jenny Offill

    Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I’d say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.– Jenny Offill

  • A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things. – Jenny Offill

    A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.– Jenny Offill

  • The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon. – Jenny Offill

    The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.– Jenny Offill