“he remembers believing this once, that everyone older than him should by virtue of their age automatically act better than him. At every stage in his life, he’d thought the next one would bring a feeling of having it all figured out, but it only tended to bring a feeling of having more to figure out than he had ever realized.”
― I Think We've Been Here Before
― I Think We've Been Here Before
“You think things like this are going to change you into someone else, but generally they make you more of who you already are. That’s true of lots of things. Tragedies. Weddings. Ends of civilizations.”
― I Think We've Been Here Before
― I Think We've Been Here Before
“optimism is when it could go either way and you try to believe it’s going to go the good way. Denial is when it’s going to go the bad way, for sure, and you pretend it’s going to go the good way.”
― I Think We've Been Here Before
― I Think We've Been Here Before
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