theStorykeeper

“It usually turned out that the people who claim they're looking to change their lives are really looking for a way to justify making the same mistakes over and over.”
― Stephen McCauley, True Enough

“But there's only so much rejection you can take before you finally give up and stop trying.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“Why do you suppose it is... that the idea of being young again is so appealing when being young the first time around was such hell?”
― Stephen McCauley, True Enough

“Animals were predictable, and therefore easy to be safe around.... If we all followed the rules, no one would get hurt. It made so much more sense than in America, where no one followed the rules, and whether I got bullied or teased had nothing to do with my own behavior.”
― Keena Roberts, Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs