Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid In Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young And Old Alike. Quotes
This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.
...Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.