How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you wh...
I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when? he said.I looked at him.He said, her punishment is being her,
Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.
I won’t claim I’ve never in my life done anything I’m ashamed of, but I haven’t done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I’ve made, that’s fine. What other people...
Such compliments--they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individu...
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable.
My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.
If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.
Cu ani mai tarziu, la o nunta, l-am auzit pe preot descriind casnicia ca pe o frangere in doua a tristetii si o dublare a bucuriei, si nu mi-a trecut prin minte nici tipul cu care eram atunci si nici...
Nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.
Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always twenty years behind the times. —Mark Twain
Get more stupider.
They only half-jokingly speculated about whether they were the last two single people from their high school class,
To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
There were many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments really, which is not the same as terrible lifetime.
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.