In the words of Dave Eggers:
Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.
When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.
If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.
We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.
It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.
I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.
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