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That little ice cream parlor rescued me from the long walks I’d been dragooned into taking. It made my father happier than he’d been since leaving his home and gave him a place to belong. It also made him diabetic, but I suppose nothing
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“Even in okay times, there is a subterranean river of melancholy in me, and sometimes a productive afternoon is comprised of using YouTube videos of varying qualities like divining rods.”
― Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
― Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
“Oh God, to return. To find a way back to yourself, the version of yourself that wanted nothing more than what you have, the version of yourself paralyzed by the fear of living through what you've lived through, the stranger in your story who had just enough hope to make a path for you. But if we could go back, we'd never move forward.”
― Congratulations, the Best is Over!
― Congratulations, the Best is Over!
“I can tell something is going wrong for me when I withdraw—I stop caring as much about the things I usually care about, be it keeping up the house or maintaining social connections or even watching the shows I like. But the more insidious thing that happens is that I lose track of my story. I lose track of where I’m going. I stop wanting to go anywhere. I stop thinking about getting to my desired ending, because everything feels like an ending already.”
― Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
― Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
“In every office I’ve worked, word of complimentary cake races through the ranks of the cubicle class like it’s a rumor about the Wells Fargo wagon showing up in River City, Iowa. Free break room cake is a blessing, a gift from some benevolent force that asks nothing of you in return. Free break room cake offers you an opportunity to share a portion of some other person’s joy, both literally and figuratively. In a space built on capitalist power structures, free break room cake reminds you that you don’t need to produce anything to be deserving of a little sweetness.”
― Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
― Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
“I like to say I’m a believer, not a knower. If you start to believe you know, be wary. I think of life as a state of constant learning.”
― A Nearly Normal Family
― A Nearly Normal Family
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