It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

I want to change, but not if it means changing.

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

When I'm in a couple, I feel I'm disappearing, dying - losing my mind.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

Ser un chico normal de 22 años, probablemente no es tan divertido como ser parte de One Direction.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

We all need to begin thinking out of the box.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.