Kim Quindlen

“Immaturity is the big one for me. If I don’t feel like I’m connecting with her on the same emotional or intellectual level, it’s not something I can really move on from.”

“I’m having a hard time getting over the relationship that we were never in.”

When Jodie Patteron’s daughter Penelope was two-years-old, she said, “Mom, I’m a boy. I don’t want to look like you. I want to look like Dad.”

When walking somewhere alone at night, spending the entire walk thinking about every possible scenario of what could happen to you and planning all possible escape routes, even if you’re just walking through a parking lot to your car.

As loud as Crohn’s is in your life, it’s a fairly quiet disease to everyone else.

Maybe you thought that after a few days, you’d feel back to normal, with some sadness mixed in. But you woke up today and that wasn’t the case. Even though you know you’re still “you,” you somehow simultaneously feel like a shell. Alive, but very much tired of anything and everything.

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Having company in the form of Clippy from Microsoft Word while you wrote a 5 paragraph essay on your “favorite summer memory.” And then getting super annoyed because Clippy would never shut the fuck up.

You’re not obsessed with the idea of love, nor are you bitter about it. You can look at it with both wonder and practicality, never becoming too fascinated by or too resentful of it.

These kids weren’t even alive yet when Friends started. And when it ended, they were only about 7 or 8.

The kissy-face emoji wasn’t a thing. Instead, if you liked someone, you coordinated a group hangout at the movies where everyone got dropped off in minivans. You’d ignore each other for the first twenty minutes, and then find common ground over how HILARIOUS this Fat Albert movie was.

Chris Pratt (Andy Dwyer) was only supposed to be on the show for six episodes, but the writers and producers liked him so much that they wrote him into the show as a series regular.

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Michael Scott’s infamous kiss with Oscar in the season three premiere “Gay Witch Hunt” was actually improvised by Carell. The shocked and surprises on the faces of the cast were real reactions. You can see B.J. Novak hiding his face and trying not to laugh and Jenna Fischer actually smiling.

Bradley Cooper had so many commitments during the filming of the Netflix reboot that they shot all of his scenes in a single day.

Clean out your damn closet. Like, hardcore purge. Resist the urge to come up with bizarre situations in which you will need that one top you haven’t touched in three years, and just toss it instead. Be ruthless. You will then realize that you wear the same ten things anyways.

Getting to a point in your life where you look at teenagers and college kids and think, “I’m so glad I’m not in that stage anymore,” as opposed to, “I’d give anything to go back.”

Although you make jokes with your friends about how your life is a mess and how you don’t know what you’re doing, your laughter is hollow. Because at the end of the day, it’s not really that funny to you anymore. You don’t know where the last five years went and you cannot comprehend the fact that you’re now halfway through your twenties and you have nothing to show for it.