“How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world had produced a being who now lived in it as a foreigner. Do plants commit suicide? Do animals die of helplessness? They either function or disappear. You were perhaps a weak link, an accidental evolutionary dead end, a temporary anomaly not destined to burgeon again.”
― Suicide
― Suicide
“There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I’d ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.”
― The Coast of Chicago: Stories
― The Coast of Chicago: Stories
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