I eat breakfast pretty much ’round the clock – muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night – which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
When you love somebody, or something, it’s amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
I’ve always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn’t get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don’t have to deal with anything but dinner, ‘E.R.’ and my bathrobe. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
I don’t think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don’t think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing – big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
You’ll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, ‘Oh, no – not pictures.’ Caroline Knapp Read Quote
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can’t quite handle attachments to humans. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn’ts and can’ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you’re actively participating in it. Caroline Knapp Read Quote
