In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar.
If I were an athlete I’d be past my prime. If I were a dog I’d be dead. Thirty . . . shit.
I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader...
You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.
We have always been a family of fighters and spectators. Intervening with reason and consideration demonstrates a dangerous cultural ignorance.
Then I’m telling it wrong. Bad? Yes. Divorce shouldn’t be friendly. It just makes everything that much more confusing,
The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it’s too late to apply to yourself.
Sometimes you don’t need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.
Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn’t very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you’ll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the...
Oh, people will come, Ray, Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. People will most definitely come.
Now we had to work to make ourselves fit into each other’s lives, to maintain our relevance to each other. In college our collective friendship had been at the center of our lives, and now the centrif...
Nothing doesn’t happen all at once. It starts slow, so slow that you don’t even notice it. And then, when you do, you banish it to the back of your mind in a hail of rationalizations and resolutions....
Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.
In high school, if you can find a girl who will kiss you and maybe let you touch her breasts and a guy who likes the same movies as you, your world is pretty much complete.
I think about making a list of all the things I need to tell people before it's too late.
I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the perma...
Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model, he says, and he would know. It will never feel as good as it looks.
Она тебе изменила, и я понимаю, как тебе больно. Но это лишь секс, мальчик, удовлетворение телесного зуда. Мы придаем этому слишком большое значение, нас так запрограммировали. В результате мы теряем...
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.
You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them