“Don’t try to understand other people’s marriages, darling, even your parents’. You’ll be lucky if you understand your own.”
― Love and Other Perishable Items
― Love and Other Perishable Items
“You spoke like me. You got my jokes. You got me. You fucked me senseless. Then you left.”
― Love and Other Perishable Items
― Love and Other Perishable Items
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“You’re very passionate about your unhappiness aren’t you, Chris?’ I responded with, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.”
― Good Oil
― Good Oil
“The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. You can hear her banging pots and pans or cursing the vacuum cleaner”
― Love and Other Perishable Items
― Love and Other Perishable Items
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