Status Updates From Someday This Will Be Funny

“People often move away from cities and towns when reminiscences create profound debt and mortgage the future.”

“Her time was full, adequate, hollow, fine, and she felt content enough with love and work, but no one lives in the present except amnesiacs.”

The tenaciousness of memory, its viciousness really—witness the desire over history for revenge—has forever been a sign that the brain recovers. But it's unclear what it recovers. . .Things circle, all is flutter. Things fall down and rise up. Hope and remorse, beauty and viciousness, and imagination, wherever it doggedly hides, unveil petulant realities. I live in my mind, and I don't." character limits, like usual.

"Families do that, implicate you in them....Blood tells the story, it seems to say, of which you are a part, and like tragedy can't be escaped....Tragedy can't be a complete shock; it must build and build to a foreseeable end, which can't ever be avoided. I can't see any of it in the family photographs. But a family resemblance shares that attribute—it can't be avoided. You can't escape what it says about you."