"If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks."
- A.M. Homes
"Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do."
"How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?"
"Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suff..."
"Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve."
"Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?"
"He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so..."
"I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?"
"There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck stranger..."
"The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to e..."