feel like my entire life has been subsumed by your sadness.

“But I’m sure at the end of our lives we will all be thinking, if only I’d consumed more content.”

Nostalgia is the suffering caused by our unappeased yearning to return.”

the feeling of being in a room with someone who did want to be alive.

Once, her eldest son called and told me there was a fat lady at the post office and his favorite cheese is the one that comes in the bag and is sort of whitish. Ingrid texted me later and said, “He means cheddar.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, @author_quotes_daily. The caption said, “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

“That I’m not good at being a person. I seem to find it more difficult to be alive than other people.”

“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It’s only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that’s it, it’s going to be like this forever, they change again.”

“First novels are autobiography and wish fulfillment. Evidently, one’s got to push all one’s disappointments and unmet desires through the pipes before one can write anything useful.” I