36 quotes found
Novelist · American · 2013–2016
American novelist
“If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations”
“I may not be old but Im too old to have this much nothing”
“I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing”
“At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.”
“Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost”
“The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.”
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”
“Sometimes its heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people theyve become. Maybe thats why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”
“We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday m...”
“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 t...”
“The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.”
“It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either...”
“Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, theres something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the sex of others. Nature has taken great pains to lay out the funda...”
“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a ...”
“I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what happened to your marriage, and I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was rig...”
“You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.”
“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”
“Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.”
“She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.”
“And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesnt matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, beingangry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoningyourself withou...”
“And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway...”
“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share tho...”
