Anxious People

“You don’t fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot.”

The bank robber needed to say those words, and the people who heard them all needed to be allowed to forgive someone.

“Stockholm” is, after all, an expression more than it is a place, both for men like Roger and for most of the rest of us, just a symbolic word to denote all the irritating people who get in the way of our happiness.

you know. JIM:

are emotional idiots, they’ll pay anything because they think all their problems will just disappear the moment they move in.

The ones who are looking for a home

You can always tell by the way people who love each other argue: the longer they’ve been together, the fewer words they need to start a fight.

She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is. Over time she realized that deep down almost everyone asks themselves the same sort of questions: Am I good? Do I make anyone proud? Am I useful to society? Am I good at my job? Generous and considerate? A decent s

The psychologist remained seated at her desk, bemused at how bemused she felt.