If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.
Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.
He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts.
But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you.
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time...
I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know.
Jen was in turmoil; she was grappling with self-esteem issues and a failed attempt at anorexia. I was in the right place at the right time, and the gods were finally ready to cut me some slack.
Dad didn’t believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can.
And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, beingangry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoningyourself without...
I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No.""Then why do we come here?"He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, dr...
↑ top up position downThe fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am i...
– Скажи, о чем ты сейчас думаешь, – просит она. – Пожалуйста.Абсурдная просьба. Наши отредактированные, не приглаженные чувством вины или стыда мысли не отличаются приличием или любовью к ближнему, он...
Love made us partners in narcissism
In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.
In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget.
I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.
It’s funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.
It’s actually somewhat common for people facing death to reach out to God, Boner says, in the exact same self-important, didactic tone he employed as a kid when explaining to us what a blow job was.
It took him four months for him to die, three more than the oncologists had predicted. Your dad's a fighter, they would say when we visited, which was a crock, because he'd already been soundly beaten...