Tyana

“We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.”
― Darin Strauss, Half a Life: A Memoir

“What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?”
― Darin Strauss, Half a Life

“Looking back now, there's something that bothers me abut the newspaper article about her death: it has Celine as Knockout, as Queen Bee, as Prom Superstar. The kid the newspaper grieved for wasn't Celine. She was none of those things. Their version of her was less distinctive than the real Celine was, less an individual, devoid of any real-life individual's quirks and smudges. The paper seemed to believe Celine's death could only be fully newsworthy, only fully sad, if she were outlandishly beautiful, outlandishly popular, outlandishly everything.”
― Darin Strauss, Half a Life

“And he sought, with quick vanity, the reflection in a big mirror opposite him. Just as fast he turned away. He appeared to have reached that situation of health where vanity meant you didn't risk your face in the mirror.”
― Darin Strauss, Half a Life