“until I started dating the funny guy in workshop who wrote gloomy two-page stories set in New Hampshire mill towns.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“A sea of adolescence streamed by, each of us in our own way trying to both fit in and stand out.”
― We Ride Upon Sticks
― We Ride Upon Sticks
“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. —JOHN UPDIKE, The Witches of Eastwick”
― We Ride Upon Sticks
― We Ride Upon Sticks
“Jasmine and I look at each other, like, is she serious? Then Jasmine conveys to me, with a flutter of her eyelids, what do you expect, she’s not like us. Yes, sometimes we are this good at understanding one another. When our similarities align in a sort of power.”
― Days of Distraction
― Days of Distraction
“People will compete and never relax and always try to innovate and achieve until they are so high-strung that the world collapses.”
― Days of Distraction
― Days of Distraction
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