Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

Roz Chast

• House
• Hands
• Parent
• Stuff
• Cute
• Stores
• Shops
• Fleas

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• I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

  

  Roz Chast
  • House
  • Hands
  • Parent