Lindsay Stern > Quotes

“I have always believed there is a comfort to be found in despair: namely, from the knowledge that, like a pendulum at its extreme, one is simply gathering momentum for the reversal, the plunge back toward a mood of possiblity. If happiness can be tempered by the knowledge that it won't last, then surely the opposite is also true.”
― Lindsay Stern, The Study of Animal Languages

“...she had described love as the act of teaching another person how to wound you most, and then agreeing tacitly never to do so.”
― Lindsay Stern, The Study of Animal Languages

“I used to think...,' I trail off. 'I used to think life would go like this: You get bashed around a bit, fuck up, lose people, and in the process figure out what really matters. But now...'
He sips from my water glass.
'It's more like figuring out that your life was never even about you, to begin with. You're not the hero. You're just someone in the cast.”
― Lindsay Stern