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

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" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "

" 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. "

" Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated. "

" Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it. "

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

" Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. "

" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "

" Teens are strange and magical. "

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

" Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making. "

" 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. "

" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "

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

" Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century. "

" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "

" I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. "

" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "

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

" 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. "

" I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "

" I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you. "

" I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that's the deal. "

" The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back. "

" My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort. "

" Pedicures are disgraceful. "

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

" There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. "