Everything feels like a badly designed computer game in which you fall into a pit that doesn't kill you but from which there's absolutely no escape. For a while you kick against the walls, but the wal...
Cross-legged on the floor, you drink, hoping each mouthful will hurt; occasional flurries of spastic movement as you try to work out what to do with your hands. When everyone else is gone, your world...
The furniture was white and the carpet red – it looked like the inside of someone's mouth. Three
We all serve the fates. Life will happen to us come what may. Not everyone gets to be a grandparent, but we're all someone's grandchild. We have no choice therefore but to carry someone else's weight,...
Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up.
Of our jobs are bad jobs, but they’re the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don’t play pool that well.
All non-smokers seem to live in the belief that smokers have wandered naively through life, bereft of the knowledge that their habit is extremely bad for them.
And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most.
Everyone’s alone in their world, because everybody’s life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And th...
You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.
Deep inside each of us is a part that mistrusts order and craves the relief of seeing the world shatter into the chaos it believes lies underneath all along.
What?’ ‘Wherever there are good people,’ he said, ‘there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn’t want to follow where you’re leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream...
Are you okay?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.’ ‘Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.
People always find it so frustrating that there’s no structure they can see, that they just have to follow the river downstream and see what they find. They want to know the plot so they can guess the...
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