Jenny Slate Quotes

“Treasure me for my layers and layers of fragility and richness. Name me after a shape that the moon makes.”

“Across the board, I just get so scared. But I don’t want to live in a state of trepidation. I want to live in front of you, with you.”

“Information about art and nature feels like the best stuff to have, and if you have it, you learn new things about the original thing.”

“There’s no secret fold within my feeling, no pleat where I force myself to stow a slip of paper that says ‘shame’ on one side and ‘weakness’ on another.”

“I love eating cucumbers and I love the xylophone and the Atlantic Ocean and I am a performer by nature and trade.”

“I was born happy but when anything that is large, alive and wild gets hurt and confused, I feel so sad, and I notice that I wish I could nurse big scared things.”

“I am throwing the party for the sake of itself, for your self, and for my self.”

“I was born and I started moving around the space because I wanted to whip around in this world.”

“My vulnerability is natural and permissible and beautiful to me, and it should remind you of your responsibility to behave like a friend to me and the world.”

“If you let me onto your land, I might be very wild, and I will not be able to totally change myself, but you can always track me by the tinkle of my lively clamor.”