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" By the time you're in your 30s, unless somebody makes the god-awful decision to gift you with a cooking class or salsa lessons, it may have been a while since you learnt something new. "

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" If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time. "

Mary H.K. Choi

College

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" If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation. "

" The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing. "

" I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15. "

" 'Sorry' is unlike anything Bieber has made in the past. It has been classified as 'tropical house' and 'dancehall,' but everyone seems to agree on one thing: It's a banger. "

" I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it. "

" In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake. "

" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "

" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "

" When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow. "

" I find texting to be kind of a safe space. "

" Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage. "

" For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find. "

" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "

" When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign. "

" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "

" Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Pirates

" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "

" Instagram is not a place for tone or irony. "

" Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it. "

" Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle. "

" The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray. "

" Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too. "

" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "

" There's a really generous readership with YA. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Readership

Generous

" When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always. "

" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "

" LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious. "

" For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap. "

" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "