Brock Clarke Quotes
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.
This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.