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That’s why ChatGPT has been such a godsend. After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.
The only way anyone can afford to buy a house these days is to have bought it fifteen years ago.
Because if you don’t feel loved, it’s difficult to feel anything at all.
If you have any sort of personality, someone will eventually want to kill you.
Rosie only really has one rule in life: if you see a door, walk through it.
“It’s taking on a lot of water,” says Amy. “That’s life,” says Rosie. “We take on a lot of water. The trick is to keep moving.”
never take offense,” says Tony. “Saved me a lot of time over the years.”
“Impostor syndrome,” her best friend had called it. The feeling that you’re not good enough, that you don’t know enough, that you’re not worthy enough.
It’s funny, across a lifetime, the people you pick up. It’s often the most unexpected ones who stick around. There are friendships forged in fire, which end up disappearing like smoke, and other casual, nodding friendships, which will stay with you for the rest of your life.
That’s all you can do for your kids, isn’t it? Try to arrange the stars.
Sin in haste, repent at leisure.
