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Tommy Butler was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, and has since called many places home, including New Hampshire, San Diego, Boston, New York City, and San Francisco. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, he was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and is an alumnus of the Screenwriters Colony (now Almanack Screenwriters.) His feature screenplay, Etopia, was the winner of Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition at the Nantucket Film Festival. ...more

What?! You’re Not Happy?

A few words on our obsession with happiness and the inspiration behind the writing of Before You Go.

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Published on July 15, 2022 12:45
Average rating: 3.97 · 1,137 ratings · 213 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Before You Go

3.97 avg rating — 1,140 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions
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"One of my all time favorites…please read it. "
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"I love love love this book. I haven’t read for pleasure since middle school. Something in me had an urge to pick up a book, and when I was at the book store I found this. I think it has churned something in me. So raw, so insightful. It made me think" Read more of this review »
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"One of the most heart wrenching yet endearing books I’ve ever read, it somehow manages to take the complexities if depression, anxiety, and thoughts of ending it all and creating a compelling story about what it means to be alive. Taking from existen" Read more of this review »
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“If you're lucky, people will love you in the way they know how. And if you're really lucky, the love they can give will be the love you need.”
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“We're just surprised that you left because you weren't happy," she says. "After all, there were so many other things to be.”
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“Life is in the living," say the brass. "There is no way to fail.”
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“Life is in the living," say the brass. "There is no way to fail.”
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“Dark fists of cloud wrestle with a bright blue sky. It is a good fight, a fair fight—the sky cold and high and piercing, the clouds deep and turbulent, their leading edge gilded white, as if inflamed by the conflict. I will always be, proclaims the sky. We will never stop, answer the clouds.”
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“There's a particular ache that results when a person is right there next to you but feels a universe away—a loneliness that is somehow unbecoming, given that you're not alone.”
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“We're just surprised that you left because you weren't happy," she says. "After all, there were so many other things to be.”
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“Compassion is perilous. When there is nothing left of you but an empty vessel, a black hole, immune to the blows of life—the loneliness and confusion, the profound disappointment, the anger—it is the kind word that breaches the event horizon, that rips your heart back open, that compels you to once again suffer the concussion of your existence.”
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