Status Updates From Far Afield

“It’s conscious. It isn’t simple. We know there’s another way to live, but we can’t change. And we can’t forget about it, either. And we don’t leave. So we’re all depressed and unsatisfied.”

“It was as though he’d been granted a present tense, in which people and events could come and go without setting off shock waves that reverberated into the past.”

“They were convinced they saw the seeds of the end in every beginning.” !

“Her wounds—for surely someone guarded was someone wounded—made [her] familiar and less appealing…Her methods of expressing her unhappiness were exotic, but the unhappiness was not.”

“In the strange algebra of human suffering, the condition of a sufferer is always improved by contact with one who suffers more.”

“What arrogance to plan his life around his determination not to be trapped with another human being. Wasn’t he trapped in himself?”