Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be.
Catalog
Joseph Fink
Some people prefer to make their homes so neat that there is no evidence of life anywhere at all.
To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right.
She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.
None of us knows what we want to do when we’re his age. When we’re your age, when you’re my age. Any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we’re right, but only ever in retrospect.
The search for truth takes us to dangerous places.
Your life is your life. You haven’t lost it. It’s just different now.
How do you say everything you’ve wanted to say to a person who has been a big part of your life and doesn’t know you at all?
All information was important information, even if the reasons were not immediately apparent.
When nothing else works, eating sure does.
Everything I do is for a reason. And I don't know what that reason is. Everything I do is for a reason, and I know none of them. Everything makes sense, and the sense is hidden from me.
If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.
Look, life is stressful. This is true everywhere.
What does it mean when you know you’re feeling something but you don’t know what that feeling is?
Not everybody gets to be friends with everybody.
It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them.
Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.
There’s no sense in going through life presuming awful things about people you do not know.
She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.
Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.