Jennifer

“Another way to say it is that everybody is dying and going to die of something. And if you’re not spending your life on the stuff you believe, then what are you even doing? What is the point of the whole thing?”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“When the immigrants came to America, they thought the streets would be paved with gold. But when they got here, they realized three things: 1.  The streets were not paved with gold. 2.  The streets were not paved at all. 3.  They were the ones expected to do the paving.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“The lesson here is that your happiest memories can become your saddest all of a sudden.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“We are always choosing situations that hurt us. We choose them so deeply that we don’t know we chose them. We think we had to. We think the world did it to us. And then we think, what a horrible world that makes a weapon out of love. That stabs you with it, even when you can’t defend yourself and the other person hates you and wants to see you cry.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue