“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
“lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.”
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“It costs our ancestors too damned much for us to have this life - the best thing we can do to honor them is to live it to its fullest.”
― The Things We Cannot Say
― The Things We Cannot Say
“Sometimes I feel like I’m defined by what I’ve survived, and I’m not sure if I like that.”
― North Of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
― North Of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
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